Chapter 1
My name is Leon Gustin. I am the fastest man alive, well in my world to say the least. In my world, I am, or was, a member of Overwatch. A group of scientists and people of extraordinary abilities. But you knew that already. How I got my powers you ask or take the title of 'fastest man alive'? Well, before I ever came to Overwatch, I was just a normal person. I was an operator for a dead end chemical company. As I was packing up to head home, I heard a crash. I looked up and noticed window glass on the floor. I cautiously walked in and noticed black mist. I grabbed a window shard to use as a weapon. Granted, not the best weapon of choice, but it was the only thing I had in the vicinity.
I walked in as quietly as I could and noticed a man in black walking around for I guessed intelligence. I stepped out of cover and shouted "Isn't it a little early for Halloween?" Curse me and my sarcastic, idiotic, self. The man in black looked at me with surprise and laughed. "You are beneath me, clear out before something bad happens to you." He threatened me. "Or what? You introduce me to your 'Death Album'. Please, I don't need to hear that." I retorted. 'You're pushing your luck idiot.' I silently scolded myself. The man chuckled and raised two shotguns at me. "Die you imbecile." He said as he shot a round at me. I rolled into cover and prepared to stab the man. He walked over to my cover and aimed a shotgun in my face. "Needs a bit of cleaning here. Goodness me, you treat all your guns like this?" I said to him. He growled, now annoyed by my antics, and prepared to pull the trigger. With my reflexes kicked into overdrive, I smacked his shotgun out of his hand and vaulted over him and grabbed the shotgun in midair and shot his chest. He stumbled back and I hit him with the end of his shotgun. He managed to shoot me in the chest. I gasped and held my side. I looked at the man and unloaded two more rounds in his chest.
The man jumped out of the window and I looked outside and noticed black mist hit the ground and he ran off. I walked to the entrance which also held chemicals and the company's generators. I walked as blood was seeping out of my wound. 'How you gonna get out of this situation this time buddy-o?' I thought to myself as I stumbled. I got up and continued to the entrance. But before I got to the entrance a blur of light appeared in front of me. I jumped and fell off the cat walk and in between the generator and vat of chemicals. I heard a sizzle and mental slapped myself as I planned to hand in my two weeks' notice due to the sound the generator was making. I looked up at the catwalk and saw the blue light zip down to check on me. "You alright luv? Sorry if I scared you." She said with a very heavy British accent. I looked up at her and nodded, but I heard a pop and noticed bolts of electricity zipping off the generator. My eyes widen and I grabbed the girl and shielded her. The bolt hit the vat and chemicals that I have no knowledge of splashed on me. I took the blunt of the chemicals as they seeped into my wounds. I flinched and fell over next to the girl. She got up and went to check on me.
I looked up and saw her face. She had spiky brown hair, goggles to hide her hazel eyes, and a button nose. I looked down and saw a machine on her chest and she noticed and told me it was a Chronal Accelerator. It helped her stay in our time as she suffers from Chronal Disassociation. I got up with the help of the girl and we proceeded to walk out. I heard the generator making unknown noises and pushed the girl out. She looked back with a look of horror as the generator let loose bolts of electricity and I took a bolt to the back and went flying. 'Holy crap, you're flying dude!' my inner self said. I slammed into a wall and blacked out.
I woke up to blinding lights and raised my hand to the lights. 'Oh come on, cliché much? Wake up on a table and next thing I should see are people walking around me.' I said to myself. After blinking the sleep out of my eyes I sat up a little. I looked around and noticed I was in an infirmary ward. I looked around and noticed a card on the table. I opened the card and it read 'Sorry about what happened, please forgive me luv. Get well soon! Signed Tracer' I placed the card on the table and twisted my body to stand up. I got up and instantly fell down. I shook my head and got back up. I walked next to wall to support myself and noticed a spare of clothes that seemed to fit me well. 'Wonder who got my clothes size.' I wondered. I grabbed the clothes and head to the shower. I showered and put the clothes on. I felt better than ever. I walked out and opened the door and noticed a long corridor. I walked a few feet and saw a door that said 'Dr. Ziegler'. In knocked on the door and heard a "Come in!" I opened the door and saw I guess was Dr. Ziegler. 'No, that's Houdini, you're an idiot.' My inner self scolded me. "I am glad you are feeling very Mr?" she asked "Leon is fine." I told her. "Well I am glad you are feeling well, and you should count yourself lucky too." She told me. "Well, if you were hit with unknown chemicals mixed within your bloodstream and hit by lighting, you would count yourself dead." I said coldly. She gave me a confused look. "I mean, if that spiky haired lady didn't show up, I would have died in that explosion and the goth man would have taken valuable intel from the company's servers." I told her. "REAPER? I-I mean; Reaper was there?" she asked me. "The goth man that looked like he hated life with two shotguns and a bone mask? Yeah that guy." I said sarcastically. She frowned. "Well, I guess you had a brush with death twice. Reaper is a terrorist working with the group known as Talon." She informed me. I nodded and my stomach growled. "Oh, I don't mean to sound rude, but do you have food anywhere? Like a buffet or something? I don't know why, but I feel like I could eat a whole buffet or two." I said to her. "That's probably a side effect of-" she was cut off as I found myself behind her with a confused look on myself as well. "-the healing." She trailed off as she realized I wasn't where she was looking. She looked behind her and jumped. "Um, that's new." I said. "H-how did you get from there to there?" she asked me.
"I am at a loss of words as you." I said. I walked a few feet and stumbled and next thing I knew I was fast asleep. I awoke several hours later as Dr. Ziegler walked around her lab throwing stuff here and there and taking notes on me. "This is unbelievable." She mumbled completely unaware that I was awake. I sat up and looked and noticed 17 IV bags hung up attached to me. 'Well then.' I thought to myself and ripped out the needles. Dr. Ziegler must've have been shaken out of here trance and fast walked to my side as she examined me carefully and made notes. I got up and placed my feet on the ground. "I could go for a sandwich, where is the food at?" I asked her. "Two floors down next to the hangar." She said to me without looking at up from her notes. I shrugged and walked to the mess hall. I made a bologna and cheese sandwich, grabbed a small bag of chips and a small glass of water. I sat alone and ate my meal. The same blue light caught my eyes and next thing I knew I was behind the girl with the blue light. I saw part of her face and noticed her frown. "You looking for me?" I asked as she jumped and looked at me with a scared look. "H-how?" she asked and I told her I guess I can move at super speed. She gave me a puzzling look as I walked back to my meal and continued to eat. After I finished my meal, I cleared my throat and said "I forgive you for scaring me and making me fall over the catwalk." She winced at the memory and started to apologize. I held my hand and told her to forget it. "Now, I believe we should get acquainted with each other." I told her. 'Oh what are we, classy? Get out of here boy.' My inner self scolded me. I mentally slapped him and focused back on the girl. "My name is Leon Gustin, you are?" I asked holding my hand out. She grabbed it and shook my hand. "Lena Oxton a.k.a Tracer." She said. "Ah, the 'poster girl' of Overwatch." I said with a little chuckle. She pouted and crossed her arms. "Oh don't be like that, I'm sure you do a lot, like sign autographs and pose for some kid's Facebook." I said laughing a little harder. She pouted at me more and turned her back. I fell to the floor laughing hard. After a few seconds, I calmed myself and looked at her. I got up and sat in the empty spot next to her. She turned her back to me again. "Oh come on Lena, I was just poking some fun, no need to be a sourpuss." I told her. She relaxed a few and turned to me.
"What?" I said to her. She slapped me in the face. "Ow! What was that for, did you get that offended? I was just poking a little fun." She smiled as I held my cheek. "Oh so that's how it's gonna be?" I said to her. She went wide eye and blinked out of my sight. I got up and ran at her. "Come here, you little minx!" I yelled at her. She laughed as I tried to get her. Good thing this was a long corridor as I used my speed to appear in front of her as she looked behind her. I braced myself as she slammed into me. "No fair!" she complained. I helped her up and said "No fair? Last I remember, I can't manipulate my own time." She blushed a little and laughed. "You got me there." I felt a little woozy and fell against the wall to support myself. "I could eat, how about you?" I asked. She looked at me with wide eyes and jumped in the air. "Where we going?" she asked. "How about a buffet, I'm famished." I told her. She nodded and ran to tell Dr. Ziegler and Winston, I remembered there was gorilla in Overwatch. She came back and they gave us the go ahead. Lena and I got in the jet and took off to a buffet. She picked Golden Corral and landed the ship in a large field and we hoofed it there. As we got there, I was being held by Lena. She paid for us and we got our food. Everyone started at us as me and Lena had a huge stack of plates on a separate table next to us.
After our 1000th plate, we were full. I gave a 100$ tip to the people and me and Lena walked out. We walked around and noticed a Dave & Busters. We went inside and got a couple game cards and played until midnight. We walked out with a new Xbox One and a giant plushy animal for Lena, and some other small trinkets as we hauled our winnings to the jet. We got back around 1:00 and sneaked inside. We were instantly caught by Winston who stood in the entrance. "It's 1:00 in the morning, where were you two?" He said with an angry tone. Lena tried to make an excuse but I came clean, I was sarcastic, but I wasn't a liar. Lena looked at me as I told him it was my idea to go to Golden Corral and then Dave & Busters. He looked at me and asked if I used any funds from the base. I assured him I use my pay check from my last week working at that company to pay for everything. Winston seemed to relax a few and nodded. We walked in and Dr. Ziegler rushed to me to see if I was ok. "Doc, doc, DOC, I'm fine, I assure you." I told her. She continued to fuss over me like a mother. I decided to shut her up with my trump card. "Thanks, mom." I said and Winston and Lena gasped and looked at me. Dr. Zeigler looked at me and brighten to a red. "Well if you keep acting like this, then you are grounded until I say so, got it mister?" she threatened me. I looked at Lena and Winston for help and they laughed. "Thanks for the backup team." I said to them. I trudged off to a dorm room and saw I had a personal bathroom, a small kitchen, A sofa with a TV, a computer, a king sized bed and coffee table. "Someone's over compensating for something." I mumbled. I placed my Xbox one on the coffee table and Lena came in. "This is your room?" she said. "I guess, unless it's somewhere else and I stumbled into mom's room." I joked. Lena laughed and let me get situated in the room. 'Hmmmm, I really don't know if I belong here, I mean I'm grateful for everything and all, but I am just a man who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. I don't deserve these powers. I worked at a chemical company for goodness sake's. I was an operator. I don't deserve to be here.' I thought to myself. Lena must've saw me and my inner battle. "You do belong here luv, whether you like it or not. The world could always use more heroes." She said to me. "Yeah, but not a Flash rip off." I said. She gave me a puzzling look. "Oh my, ok you are coming with me, first thing tomorrow. We are going to a comic book store and getting copies of The Flash for you to read." I told her. She smiled and waved me off. I flopped on the bed and immediately felt the power of sleep take me.
A/N: Now, I did say I wanted to branch off a bit from the crossovers. So I made my own Flash-like origin of a man named Leon who was in the Overwatch universe. I hope you like it. I got the idea from watch The Flash on Netflix.