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// Confrontation 
// Story: Living Darkness 
// by vildtiger 
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Note: this happens ten minutes after the last chapter and based on the Team Fortress comics

*Grey’s secret base.*

Down at the prison cells, the heavy take up the phone to hear what their boss has to say before stepping into the cell. “Kreel.” He calls with a strong accent. The disguise of Heavy drops and Kreel turns away from the in disbelief Miss Pauling, revealing that she told the enemy the coordinates to her boss.

Kreel eyes the heavy mildly annoyed someone ruined her act, it was such a good one. No surprise these people fell for it though, Kreel has always prided herself being a brilliant actor. “This better be urgent.” She complains and does a god awful job hiding the accent from her fatherland. No wish in revealing too much about herself. She takes the phone from the heavy, turning away from the team, most of them startled that the same one they saw not long ago fooled them. Messing with people is so much fun. “You ruined my groove, Jackie.”

“Did you get the coordinates?”

“Of course I did, 32.3451 north, 106.5614 west.” Kreel sighs, eyeing her team’s heavy as her current boss explains her. “Good, I will send those to Grey. Go and help the others with the escapees, they have trouble rounding them up.” 
Oh good, thought for a moment this distraction would only be a small one. Now to the next part of the plan, for if she has to stick around that mummy mocking her not being good at her job just because she’s a woman one more day, she will smack a sapper on that machine of his back and poison his food just for good measure. She has better things to do than play mercenary for a fool wanting world domination. “Got it.”
Eyeing these people, Kreel ponders the best way they can work in her little plan. They all are pretty much useless without weapons, but if that spy just has a touch of skill... 
She signs to the heavy to leave the room. He does and swiftly she steps over to the prisoners, handing the free Miss Pauling one of the keys she made to the chains and her own invisibility watch. “Make it count.” She eyes the Spy again and must admit she is intrigued that someone else in this world has this unique red eye color.

Spy was at first very annoyed a woman fooled him, must give her props for it, had him completely fooled it was Heavy they spoke with. Just as annoyed she is planning to use them to whatever plan she has, he does not like getting pulled around like this… hold up… those eyes… he remembers them from his youth, eyes belonging to a small girl there wanted to be an actress when she grows up. Cut short by death with his betrayal and now decades later, those eyes are looking at him from a woman with the same uncanny acting skills as—he would’ve gasped, jumped, perhaps freaked out if he hasn’t been trained to keep his emotions under constant control. Still, his eyes did not hide his shock and she saw it. Her own eyes wide, like him she must’ve come to the same realization. 
However and also like him, she is unsure if this indeed legit so she only dares to speak. “Sois un avec les ombres.” and she is gone. Spy watches her leave, pondering if she really is a remnant of his past or it’s just an old man’s childish dream?

“Do you know her?” Miss Pauling whispers as she unlocks his chains.

Spy shakes his head, “no.” For if she really is who he thinks it is, then he has no wish in giving this info to the Administrator’s assistance. 
When he is free, Spy grabs the key and uses the cloaking device this noteworthy ally gave him to free the others and hopefully give them a chance to win this fight.

*Meanwhile, at the infirmany*

Standing before the door, Medic finds himself unable to step through, he knows what he will find; a hit to the gut of a past he more than ever wants to run away from. 
He is very glad Twilight does not rush him, she must understand how hard this is for him. He doesn't want to do this but if they need a chance, then he has to confront the source of his insanity, the monster that naïve young doctor let himself get turned into. He steps through the door and freezes up. He is once again back at the infirmary of Auschwitz, the blood, the smell of decay, the organs taken from live subjects- stored on a shelf nearby. The wind must be blowing the right way for he cannot smell the stench of burned flesh at the moment.

Twilight knew it would be bad but not this bad. This infirmary is smeared in blood and the stench of something she cannot place, only it makes her want to throw up. Near an office table is a large bird cage, but the birds in there are all dead, from starvation or something else, Twilight does not know, only that this is not something the Medic she befriended would do. 
Twilight turns slowly her eyes to the medical table, behind it and writing notes on jars filled with body parts stand Medic’s other in a medical coat smeared in blood. 
Twilight cannot make herself call him, too horrified of what great warnings this room screams to her, her whole being tells her this is a dangerous place- he is a dangerous man to be around and she should get as far away from him as possible. She steps behind Medic, then remembers that the man there has all the warning signs of danger is the same she seek protection from.

I'm not a good person and they know it.

You will never see me the same way if I told you.

Twilight gasps, now realizing what he meant by those words. This is what the door showed him, this is what he fears more than anything: the deep darkness residing inside of him. The very darkness the Shadow Ponies are attached to. 
Medic's other turns around, he stares confused at her and his other for a moment, then smiles, a smile there makes her more afraid of him. “Ach, über die Zeit Grey schick mir ein anderes Thema. Was soll ich mit dir machen? Vielleicht testen, wie viele Herzen ein menschlicher Körper halten kann?” He walks over to them, but stops with a mildly surprised frown when the saner Medic steps in between her and his other.

God good is he happy Twilight Sparkle does not understand German, doubt it will change her look on him though. “|I won’t let you hurt her.|” He tells his other, unlike the others of the team who hate their other half, Medic does not hate himself, he fears it.

He is afraid to look in the mirror and see the man who has ruined so many lives all in the sake for his curiosity and it was so easy to see those people as mere bags of flesh he could play with. He only realized what he has become when he no longer could play around as he did during the war. When Germany fell, everyone on Hitler’s side got hunted down like animals. That was where he first realized how it felt, the nightmares began not long after that, only got worse the more of his humanity returned. It made him rebound back to this moral free insanity he had going, kept it when he worked for Mann Co. 
It made the others fear him, but he was used to be treated that way. Did make it hard to work with the team, Pyro is a good example. When he tried doing a checkup on the firebug, she sat the whole place on fire, hunted everyone with no regard of color. He had to let the Administrator doctors do the übercharge implant on her, for every time he tried; he would get set on fire. Soldier was bad too, for every time he realized he was German, Soldier would hunt him like an animal and for a long time, he was forced to deal with it as none of the others wanted to aid the crazy Nazi doctor who would do experiments on them any chance he got. It only stopped when Misha joined the team, and how humbling it was that a Russian would help someone like him.

“|We can’t go on like this anymore.|” He says, but his other only laughs and asks amusedly. “|You want to stop? My god, why do you suggest such a silly thing? Why do you want to stop when so many unanswered questions have yet to be answered?|” He gestures over to the shelf filled with organs, both human and animal. “|In this year alone, I have learned so much! I can make the üpercharge implant better now. And with a few more tests I can turn mere humans into gods!|” He steps over to Medic, asking with a grin the others are calling the bonesaw face. “|I can show you how.|” 
And Medic wants to say yes, he is curious how his other learned this but… “|At what cost?|” He asks in barely a whisper. “|How many lives do we have to destroy for this knowledge? How much of what little humanity we have needs to be sacrificed?|” 
His other steps away and waves his hand with a snort. “|A few hundred deaths will be worth it. The ends justify the means after all.|”
How many times has he used that to reason what he has done? Medic has no idea, only that hearing it now makes him sick to the stomach. “|No.|” He tells his other hard who turns around confused. Medic is not sure what changed, only that he does not want to do this anymore. “|This is not worth it! We shouldn’t hurt people for the sake of our curiosity! I know there are things I never am going to understand and it frustrates me to no end but…|” Medic lets out a sigh, he can’t believe he’s saying this but, well he did learn his lesson. “|It’s alright not being able to understand, sometimes we just have to accept that’s how things are.|” 
His other scowls deeply at this, of course, he wouldn’t know. He didn’t learn this lesson as he never met a certain obnoxious pink pony. Nor knowing the girl standing beside him in person. “|This girl is a dear friend of mine, she has a curiosity very close to ours and has taught me so many new things. A few lessons too, one of them I gave to a princess. One I did not think I could follow myself, but now; I would like to try become a better person.|” It will be hard but Medic really wants to prove- mostly to himself that he is worthy of the Element there appeared around his neck.

Of course his other is not sharing his thoughts as that one starts laughing, ending abruptly with an angry sneer. “|I was considering taking you back, but hearing your little speech, I realize you will only hold me back!|” Medic shoves Twilight away in last second, so only he ended up with arm filled with poisoned syringes. It takes effect almost instantly and knowing he is going to die and leave Twilight with his worst self. “Run…!” He managed to croak before falling, he is dead when he hits the floor.

With that nuisance gone, the other Medic turns to the frozen in fear girl. “Don’t be afraid, I won’t kill you.” He ensures her with a wicked smile, can’t have this specimen die before he is done.

That’s not what worries Twilight, she now realizes that his jokes and disturbing small stories have been real. She’s no longer afraid of getting killed, no, she’s afraid she will end up like his former victims. “Is this what you meant you’re not a good person?” She asks him in barely of a whisper, knowing far too well she cannot run, how can she when she can barely walk? 
The twisted side of Medic laughs lightly. “I don’t recall I ever said that. Now, let’s get started shall we?” He reaches out for the terrified Twilight but stops when magenta sparks appear between his fingers and her arm. He pulls his hand away, staring at her intrigued yet disturbed. “So hast du ihn kontrolliert ...” He muses and after a moment of pondering, he grabs a pair of gloves and this time no sparks appeared, and when Twilight realized that she's no longer is protected by what little magic is in her there can snap Medic out from this, she panics and struggles to get away. “Don’t hurt me! Please, Medic!” She cries but this man completely ignores her. She freezes up and when he lifts her up to the table but fortunately snaps out from it before he managed to strap her to it. She grabs him around the head and knocks their heads together in an attempt to perform a memory spell. In her panic Twilight completely forgot that she cannot do unicorn magic, so no memory spell, but something did happen as a magenta spark between them.

Medic flinches away, holding over his greatly aching head from both getting headbutted by this brat and she managed to perform this mind control she did on his weird acting other. He tries to figure out a way stopping whatever she did, but before he can get to the medical closet, his legs give in and he drops to the ground. For the first time feels the ancient magic going through his very being, it hurts as if getting burned in hell. He wants to scream, struggle, but he is paralyzed and can do nothing but lie there while it feels like his inside is getting burned before everything goes black.

After what feels like hours for Twilight this Medic groans and very slowly begins to move. She is still scared out of her mind and not sure if this cleansing magic worked on this one, she tries desperately to get the strapping off her feet. But she still hasn't gotten used to her hands. This Medic gets on his feet, does stumble and has to seek support at the desk. She eyes the man fearfully, it takes her a moment but she notices that this disturbing gleam in his grey eyes is gone. Now he just looks confused. 
This Medic straightens up and carefully walks over to her, musing: “Whatever you did… it removed the song.” He helps her free from the strapping and allows her to jump down from this bed. Twilight does and although still really shaken up from this too close call. “I’m glad you’re good again.” She says softly.

Good? Did he hear this girl right? “Not exactly the words I would choose describing myself.” Medic muses, sure she snapped him out from his insane doctor mode, but it’s still there and must admit it takes some resistance from him not to put her back onto the table and see what in the world made her able to do such a thing. Speaking of which; “What was that?” He asks this girl his other was very keen on protecting. “Are you doing some sort of mind control? How does it work exactly? Will it hurt if I do not—“

“Huh? No, I’m not controlling you.” Twilight interrupts Medic, why does he suddenly think that? “I think it’s the Element of Magic in you reacting on me.” Medic blinks but that curious gleam she has often seen when he was a pony is still there. “What is this Element of Magic?” He asks as if it’s the first time he hears about it. Twilight stares at him dumbfounded for several seconds, then she slowly asks. “Do you... know who I am?”

“Other than my other was very set on keeping you safe, nein, I have no clue who you are frauline.” Medic replies and is curious why his other was so protective over a child, he does not like children. “How did you do it? Making him protect you like that?”

“Because we’re friends?” Twilight replies and can’t help but feel weird about this. She is speaking to Medic but this one does not recognize her at all. And hearing they are friends only makes him laugh as if she told a really good joke. “You must be mistaken.” But she is definitely not. “No, we are friends— not you and me but the man you just… oh my, please tell me he is going to be alright!” Twilight first now realizes that this man killed her friend, the other humans kept telling her not to worry but it’s hard not to.

This is getting weird, this girl is sincerely worried about his other. “Your… friend is alive.” God, it feels weird saying that when her friend is the other half of his soul, this girl is far from being a friend to him. “But I doubt he is going to be alright. You see, Engineer and another of the same class— along with a bit of my help, of course, we managed to create a loop in the respawn there keeps any unwanted people to never get put together, so my other or whoever has died today will stay in a state of limbo. Not going to return unless Grey Mann says so.” He explains happily, very proud of that achievement as that made the testing with BLU Spy’s head so much more worth it. The girl is not happy about it of course. “That’s terrible! Is there any way to stop it?” 
Medic shrugs, so long he does not die, he should be fine. “Only Grey can— where are you going?” He asks when this girl starts to leave the infirmary.

“I have to remove this loop before more of the others are going to die.” Twilight calls back, she stops and asks this other Medic. “Will you help me?” He frowns and says. “Ah no, I think I will stay here and…” His eyes lands on the cage, he gasps and heads over to it, whole posture drops when realizing his birds are all dead. Twilight watches him for a moment, well aware how much this hurts for a bird lover like him. “I’m sorry…”

“Why are you apologizing?” Medic asks confused about why this girl says sorry when he was the one who killed his own doves. He does not understand this girl. “I was the one who killed them.” Turning away from the cage and back to her, looking into her purple eyes he realizes that her fear is gone. What is wrong with this child? She can’t be that naïve. “I would’ve hurt you if not for your mind control ability. You know that.”

“I know...”

“Then why aren’t you afraid?” He pretty much demands her and takes a step forward, she flinches, so the fear of him is still there but not the screaming and crying he thought she would have. “Why do you trust me?”

Twilight meets his eyes, and to be completely honest. “I do not trust you but the man you killed. He was a dear friend and you murdered him in cold blood.” She tells him hard.

“That man was the other half of my soul.” Medic objects, he’s not sure why but he feels like he does not know himself anymore. What made his other change so much, to care for another being this dearly? “Who are you?”

“Twilight Sparkle.”

This… This is Twilight? That purple pony he kept seeing in his dreams? Medic can’t help but title his head in wonder, he only has faint dreams of that pony now, barely having any idea who she is. But what is still clear in his mind is how much his other cares about her. Medic knows he does not care about Twilight Sparkle, all of those emotions was the effect of the separation but… he walks slowly over to her and after some hesitating, he puts a hand on her shoulder, does flinch away when feeling— no idea what it is but it’s reacting to the liquid connecting him to the respawn. Not feeling comfortable with this, he steps away. “Approaching Grey without the team is a death wish. I suggest we find a way to free the others.” Why he helps her he has no idea, but he feels like he should. Twilight nods and after he has grabbed his medigun, they both start walking.

Down the hallway, she gives him some surprising but good news: “Archimedes is still in Equestria.” He snaps his attention to her and she explains. “He never returned back with you, so Fluttershy has been taking care of him.” 
“Oh, good... good.” Medic muses, relieved his pet killing spree didn't take his favorite dove— god he is never going to forgive himself for this … 
The siren for intruders begins to wail, making the two jumps startled. Medic looks up to where the sound comes from. Well, seems like the team figured out to get free on their own, better find one of them before they get killed by those Grey hired, for unlike in the War Games where they could predict the other team’s action, they do not have that luxury for this team is not made by their clones. This other team has people with very different fighting style compared to their own. Right, perhaps Twilight did have a good thought of returning respawn. Eyeing Twilight. “We better hurry.” She nods and follows him as fast as she can.

Outside, the mercenaries are fighting against this other team and they are in deep trouble, they have already lost Sniper and Scout to this other team. Compared to fighting their own clones, this team is very different and thus making it hard to predict where they will strike next. Heavy learned that the hard way when this way more aggressive and all business scout revealed to be just a distraction and Heavy would’ve been killed when the true threat showed to be the enemy Pyro. The only thing that saved him was that Demo had been in the area and succeed chopping the pyro’s head off, allowing him to focus on the scout. That one did escape, though. No wonder for unlike their Scout, this one knows when to draw back. 
With the threat gone for now Heavy nods to Demo as thanks and claims the shotgun the Pyro had, it’s not Sasha but it will have to do. And just in time for that woman engineer picks a fight with them, her ability to remote control the sentry is making her very deadly and getting in close will be difficult as their Demoman is keeping her safe by creating a landmine field around her. Getting away from that woman, Heavy scans the area for a way of getting rid of her and that sentry gun. Before he does, Soldier’s evil other fixes that problem for them. He really has something against black people, at least he made their job easier. Now they only have to deal with a highly racist Soldier.

They got almost blown to pieces when Soldier started launching his rockets at them. “I will not allow American soil getting tainted by foreigner such as you!” He shoots again but just in last second, Pyro jumps in between and air blast the rocket right back at him. Soldier dodges it by rocket jumping and tries again, she returns it back and points at the two wounded they need to move.

It’s clear what that means. “She’s out!” Demo says and takes the run for it with Heavy and Pyro close behind. They join their saner Soldier there protects Spike and Miss Pauling against Engineer’s other army of sentry guns. Didn’t have to worry about the man repairing them though, he didn’t care, which is sort of a relief. 
“Found your evil other.” Demo tells Soldier and explains they if it wasn’t for their firebug, then they would be right back in their prison cells. 
They snap their attention to their right when Spy suddenly come crashing down from seemly nowhere, seconds later Sniper’s other lands beside him and removes the blade stuck in Spy’s shoulder, raising it to slash him again but Spy kicks the man away and takes the run for it. Sniper pursues but a bomb by Demo puts Sniper’s other out of commission at the moment. 
“You alright?” He asks Spy who is trying to stop the bleedings from the wound Sniper’s other gave him.

“I could really use Medic by now.” Spy admits, Sniper’s other got him good and unless he stops the bleeding, he will be joining the others.

“Sorry to inform you, but your medic is working for me now.” A voice says and a very old looking man appears on several screens.

“Grey.” Spy growls and everyone in hearing range now know the face of the man who put them through all this trouble.

Grey must admit that these retarded people are more trouble than they are worth, well at least the mercenaries he has aren't as worthless as he thought. “And so are your sniper, soldier and engineer, I may not be able to kill you, but I have found a way to forever trap you inside the machine. If you die, then you will never leave the spawn ever again.” 
The so-called ‘good’ mercenaries freeze up to hear that unlike their enemy, they only have one life in this. It is annoying he cannot use the respawn machine for himself, and it’s too good of a machine to destroy but thanks to some of these men, he no longer has to worry about these rejects. He pushes on a bottom and a whole army of his robots begin to surround them. “You can fight all you want, but we all know you will run out of ammo before I run out of robots and men. And even if you manage to survive. You won’t be able to stop the conjuring, goodbye.” and he leaves them to fight, knowing they won’t last long without a medic to heal nor an engineer to give them more ammo.

And the mercenaries know it.

Inside the base, the RED Medic and Twilight hurry to get outside and aid the others, but just as they reach the door leading to the outside, a very familiar beeping sound makes Medic’s whole body tense and in last second he grabs and pulls Twilight back before she got shot by the now active sentry gun. He signs her to stay before peeking past the wall and indeed spots a sentry gun, unlike the black woman this sentry looks exactly like their Engineer’s sentry gun. The only thing showing this one belongs to the other is the paint job and said man sitting nearby, pretending to be asleep under that cowboy hat of his. But Medic knows better, this Engineer is just as deadly as his team's, perhaps more so as this one holds a deep grudge on him. 
They can’t go this route, so they have to find another. Medic turns to leave but stops when this cowboy dressed man speaks with a Nordic accent.

“I wouldn’t move if I were you.”

And right in that second, a mini-sentry builds itself up right beside them, only the command of its master keeps it from shooting at them. Medic stares worried at the sentry, then turns to where the engineer is sitting as the man speaks. “Step over where I can see you.” He does, casting Twilight a glance for using him as a shield. Must admit he is more used to use others as a meat shield, not the other way around.

The cowboy dressed engineer lifts his head so he can see the demon he has captured, it’s quite surprising to see a young girl standing beside him and from the looks of it; she is completely unharmed. For now at least. “I suggest you step away from that man, young miss.” He changes position, allowing her to see that his left leg is no longer organic, plus without these special goggles, he cannot see squat. “He might take a part of you too.”

Twilight Sparkle stares at this human male, he reminds her of Engineer in his calm demeanor but unlike Engineer, this one holds a lot of rage behind this calmness of his. From how he warned her, Twilight dreads that the source of his rage is because of Medic. He did something to this human, she fears that Medic was the one who took his leg. Looking up to Medic she does not see regret in his grey eyes, only a worry that he is very aware this man holds a deadly grudge. Makes her wonder how the Medic she befriended would’ve reacted. She turns back to the engineer. “Did he do that to you?” She asks softly. 
The man nods slowly and without a word makes a gesture Twilight thinks means she should approach him. She does not move, much rather wants to trust Medic keeping her safe than this other human. She has long learned that this world is far from being friendly and if not careful, she can get seriously hurt.

Seeing this girl much rather wants to stick close to the monster does surprise the engineer, he rests his head on his hand in wonder. “You trust him.” He states out and is quite curious about why. “May I ask of why you trust this man? One who finds it quite funny to meddle with the human body to such an extent that when he is done, the lucky ones will die or be disabled for the rest of their lives.” The girl flinches and looks extremely uncomfortable by his words, makes him wonder if she is naïve, somehow he doubts it from how she is looking at the now uncomfortable monster of a man.

So Medic did indeed do this. She considers him a friend but when this is all over Twilight will make extra sure that Medic won’t do anything of the sort. His curiosity is more dangerous than she thought and if he ever wishes to gain anyone’s trust again, then it needs to be corrected. “It’s a sort of long and complicated story.” She muses to the one-legged engineer. “But I know there is good in Medic, I have seen it.”

“Is that so?”

Medic is equally as surprised to hear this from Twilight, he has no memories of him doing anything morally good that could earn him such words from the turned pony. 
Twilight did notice his surprise and she remarks to their current jailor. “I befriended his other and we taught each other a lot, one of the things I taught him was compassion.” 
The engineer eyes Medic in an intrigued manner. “So, she split you in half. And from how you don’t have your other around, I say you have some deep personal issues.” Medic frowns at this and against his better judgment of not pushing the man pointing a sentry gun at him, his curiosity once again gets the better of him. “From how you speak, I figure you dealt with the same thing. How did you manage to mend your soul?”

The engineer’s jaw tightens, last time he saw that look in that maniac’s eyes was when he lost his leg. So no way in hell he is going to tell the man the rather simple solution of fixing the soul split issue: to make peace with one's inner demon. There is a reason why the Administrator picks people with a dark history. Because the soul split technology works best on such people. Turning away from the maniac, he asks the girl. “What are you planning on doing?” For she wouldn’t have approached this place without wanting to do something to the respawn machine.

Getting the sense this man is someone she can trust with this, Twilight cannot really explain it but she feels he is legit in wanting to aid her. “I need to make sure the hu- the men I came with can respawn.”

“Hm, yes, I figure most of them have died from the robot hoard and my team’s assault by now.” The cowboy engineer points out and is curious how much she has affected this Nazi doctor, plus he senses she is sincere. “I will help you, on one condition: the team that came with you will allow my team to leave freely. Our Spy is about to release them from the chains currently holding them.” The girl nods. “I will tell them.” 
Not sure why but he decides he can trust her words on this. “I will deactivate the blocking program.” He pulls himself up on his feet with a specially made walking stick he limps away. “Return to the remaining of your team.”

Twilight eyes Medic. “Let’s go.” and without a hint of worry, she walks past the sentry gun.

A quite baffled Medic follows, shocked that a diplomatic talk actually got them what they wanted. Medic does stop and asks the leaving engineer. “How are you able to resist the song?” He asks but he gets no answer.
Disappointed but not wanting to push his luck, Medic follows Twilight outside. They spot the remaining team struggling to stay alive, most of them are badly wounded and probably one hit from getting killed. Swiftly Medic turn on his medigun and hurries over to the still standing but about to drop dead Heavy. He turns the healing beam at the man, closing the wounds and heals Heavy to fight a bit longer.

Startled but in a very good way, Heavy turns to the owner of this beam and gives Medic a smile, which the German returns, does fade when the others call for his aid the second they noticed him. Medic casts him an amused glance. “Duty calls.” Heavy chuckles and with renewed health, he attacks the robots again.

Medic runs over to the others and aims his healing beam at Soldier first, figures he can use his fists like Misha.
He eyes Demo when the one-eyed man asks after have emptied a beer bottle he somehow got his hands on. “Where did that scout take you? Thought they would torture you or something.” He turns the beam at the man. “Hm, you must be talking about my other. He and Twilight walked into my domain and for some reason, frauline Twilight was able to remove the Sirens control over me.” 
This catches the others off guard.
“You're RED Medic?” Heavy asks, Medic nods and is confused why this explains everything for them. “What does my team color has to do about it?” He asks, about to heal up Spy but decides otherwise when Heavy is about to drop again, so he runs over to help there as that is where he is most needed. While he heals Misha, the big man answers his question. “BLU doctor know magic thanks being pony.” 
Oh, he sees now. “I see, still weird he considers Twilight a close friend, he was quite keen on protecting her.” Does still confuses him and how mere talking could make that cowboy engineer aid them. Twilight is quite the diplomat he admits that.

Heavy catches a Scout-bot and hurls it at two fast approaching Pyro-bots, with the danger gone for the moment he speaks to this side of Josef. “You will know if give Twilight a chance.”

Guess he will if his other is willing to share her. Doubt it from how keen he was on keeping her safe.
Eyeing the hoard of robots, it’s clear that Grey really does not want them near that area. “I wonder what that red-haired woman is planning.” Medic ponders out loud, draws out his bonesaw and destroy a spy-bot there tried to sneak up on them. He knows that woman was planning something big but neither she nor Grey told any of them what it is.

Heavy gets thrown back by a couple of bombs, even with Medic’s aid, he can’t keep this up much longer. They need ammo and a lot of it. Turning to the doctor, he replies Medic. “Woman is unicorn.”

“Really? Does that means she can do magic?”

Heavy nods, grabs a Soldier-bot and throws it against a Demo-bot there tried to blow up Soldier. “Yes, she has Twilight’s element. Do not know why she want it.” 
“Ignoring the fact I do not know what this element is, all I can say that whatever Sunny is planning: it can’t be good.” Medic says, and Heavy thinks the same thing. The only problem is they cannot get near without destroying those robots. Doubts they have time for a pillar of magic burst up to the sky, signing that Sunset Shimmer is doing something. 
“We need to hurry!” He calls to the others.

“We have trouble just to stay alive ourselves!” Demo shouts back, he checks for ammo to his shotgun but when he finds none he instead picks up a copy of Eyelander and cut the robots with it. “We need ammo and lots of it!”

“Coming right up!”

The others look up and cheer when their remaining member drops down from the sky by parachute. “Engineer!” The Texan laughs and throws down a dispenser, he quickly upgrades it from all the robot parts lying around. With it, the team gets the ammo they so desperately needed and finally can fight the hoard of robots. 
Engineer trots over and helps Spy over to the dispenser. “Been playing with a giant cat?” He asks. 
“No, sniper’s other.” Spy replies, Engineer simply nods and puts him down near the machine. 
Miss Pauling trots over to him, asking. “Did the Administrator send you?” 
Engineer starts building a sentry gun. “Nope, I came on my own account. All she gave me was a private plane and your exact location.” He shoots at a demo-bot trying to destroy the sentry before returning back to upgrade it. “Would’ve have come sooner, but well, I had to make sure my son was safe first.” He has to stop and duck when Soldier’s other start shooting at them along with that bow-wielding Sniper. The others couldn’t do much because of their current short/middle ranged weapons but just as all seems to be lost, music starts playing from the speakers.

On top of a building, the other team scout shakes his head from a headache he’s dealing with but he is more than happy of having it now that he can think freely again. It takes him a moment to get a hang on the situation and activates the intercom to his team. “Sniper, take the soldier out!” 
The sniper does that by putting an arrow through Soldier’s other’s head. The scout is about to make further commands but just then the younger scout decides to join the fight again. 
The older scout pulls out his military knife, annoyed by this delay. “Get out of my way kid!” and with his own speed slashes the younger scout over the chest. Moving over to finish him off, the older scout only stops when someone is shooting at him. Checking he sees the other sniper and not wanting to respawn as that hurts like hell. He swiftly leaves.

Seeing that the other team is getting out from their thrall of these sirens, Twilight calls out. “Don’t hurt them! They won’t fight us anymore!” 
The humans' eye her confused but do turn their weapons at the robots when the other team is more interested in leaving than fighting. Soldier does hesitate longer but does eventually turn his rocket launcher away from the other team’s pyro and Demoman. Those two hesitates for a second out of confusion, but like the rest of their team; they leave.
Twilight is very relieved that her human friends are getting those metal humans under control now with the others out of the way, but defeating the whole army is taking too long. Sunset is doing something and they have to stop it. She tells this to the mercenaries and asks them to reach Sunset. 
Heavy stops shooting just long enough to tell her. “We will make opening for you.” Soldier, Demo and Scout nod. “Engineer will go with you.”

“You sure that’s a good idea?” Engineer asks. He needs to be around for the sentry gun and dispenser. “I will be more useful near you guys, besides: I have no knowledge of magic.”

“I’ll go.”

Everyone turns around and the BLU Medic approaches them. He almost gets toppled down when Twilight throws herself at him in a hug. He bit awkwardly returns it, straighten up he sends his other a cautious look. The RED Medic does the same before doing the wise choice in returning to his task of fixing up Zhanna’s hand.

“If anyone of us knows magic, it’s this doctor.” Spy points out from his spot beside the dispenser, he lights up a cigarette. “Best RED Medic stay here, can’t have you kill one another. Grey made it clear we won’t return if we die.”

“We will now, thanks to frauline Twilight.” RED Medic points out and explains those listing on how Twilight practically talked an enemy engineer to help them. To his surprise, his other laughs amused by this. “Ah yes, we all know how effective a Twilight Sparkle lecture can be.” And the girl blushes sheepishly. This does leave RED Medic with an odd feeling, he can’t explain it better than he… feels left out. “|I’m starting to have trouble to see myself in you.|” He remarks to his other. The BLU Medic sends him a somber look. “|A lot has changed after my visit to Equestria.|” That RED Medic can agree on, makes him wonder if it’s even possible they can become whole again from how different they have become.

Turning away from his other and back to his partner. “Let’s get back your Element” She nods back. The two turn to Misha stepping over to them, holding his weapon ready. “I will cover you.” Medic is glad for all he has is a bonesaw. He does hesitate when Spike declares he is going with them, wants to argue but there is really no time. A loud sigh and with: “You better stick close.” He signs the team to start shooting and when they do, he, Twilight and Spike hurry towards the beam of magic.