Summary: Fresh out of Ranger School, you are "Viper", the newest addition to the multinational Joint Task Force 7, Fireteam Overwatch. Lead by outspoken British SAS grenadier "Tracer" and consisting of hardened French GIGN sniper "Widowmaker" and optimistic Japanese SFG automatic rifleman "Genji", you, a designated marksman from the 75th Ranger Regiment, are pulled into the team per request of Tracer, who had watched you during training and was impressed by your marksmanship skills and ability to cope under pressure. This comes after the loss of her former DM, a fellow British SAS operator. Being thrown into the fire only weeks after your graduation from Ranger School, your nerves and abilities will be tested in the field but don't worry; Tracer has your 6.

"Viper" can be you or your own character. I'm staying gender-neutral for obvious reasons.

One minute you were asleep on the plane, the next you were being kicked awake by the pilot. You were the last one to get off. You stand up and then leave the plane and are approached by the base commander. You stand up straight and salute him. He returns salute.

"Glad you could make it, Viper." the commander tells you, "Come with me. You team is waiting for you."

You nod your head and follow the base commander until you two arrive at a hangar a few hundred metres away from the plane. He then points and motions you to go inside and you nod your head once again. You walk into the hangar and see a group of three talking to each other in a circle. You make your way over to them and then stand in front of them, saluting them. They turn to face you and one of them returns salute.

"You must be Viper. I'm Tracer. I'm sure they've already told you about me."

You nod your head in affirmation. You're a little surprised that Tracer was a rather short British woman because you figured that she was a burly man from the way your superiors described her and her feats to you. Nevertheless, you finally had a face to the name. It helped that she was rather cute. The taller raven-haired woman clicked her tongue and looks you up and down in disgust.

"Who is this amateur?" she spat, her voice having a heavy French accent.

Tracer turned and looked at her.

"Take it easy, Widow. This is Viper, our new DM." Tracer said, "Viper, this is Widowmaker, our crackshot of a sniper."

You extend your hand out to shake her's, but she just looks at your hand and then back at you and makes a disgusted face. You slowly and awkwardly retract your hand.

"Crackshot in more ways than one, though." Tracer adds, giving Widowmaker a hard look, "Half the time, I don't know if she's better at running her rifle or her mouth."

Widowmaker scoffed in response. Tracer shook her head and then looked at Genji and pointed at him.

"And that there's Genji. He's our auto rifleman and unofficially, our resident ninja."

Genji extended out his hand and you reach out and shake. Genji is much more pleasant that Widowmaker.

"Nice to meet you, Viper. I'm Genji." he says to you, his voice laced with a Japanese accent.

"It's not his real name, though." Tracer added on.

"It's kind of like the Japanese equivalent of 'Smith', or something like that." Genji explains.

You nod your head in understanding.

"Who is this, anyway? How come I have never heard of this 'Viper'?" Widowmaker asked.

"Viper is fresh out of US Army Ranger School…" Tracer was cut off.

"An amateur?!" Widowmaker said incredulously, "What has gotten into you?! Viper is a liability to us!"

"Cool it, Widow. I've been tracking Viper's progress through Ranger School and personally made the request that Viper be brought on board. Scores were exceptional." Tracer explained to Widowmaker.

"Bringing on someone who has never seen combat will only serve to hinder us, if not get them killed or even worse, us killed!"

"Well it's not like you have much of a say here, Widow. Viper's our new DM whether you like it or not so you'd better learn to get along." Tracer shot firmly.

"I do not approve of this complete amateur being on our team!"

"Then you can find another team to be part of, or go back home."

"Maybe I will!"

"You do that." Tracer said, "But until then, you're on this team, so cool it."

Widowmaker crossed her arms and muttered in French under her breath about her dissatisfaction with the situation. Tracer then turned to face all three of you.

"I have to go and attend one final briefing before we take off at 0300 hours. Genji, take Viper to get kitted up. Widow, make your final preps. We meet outside in 30 at 0300 sharp. Dismissed."

Genji and Widowmaker nodded their heads. Widowmaker and Tracer went their ways while Genji turns to you and motions you to follow, which you do. The initial moments between you two are relatively silent until Genji breaks it.

"Hey, don't let Widowmaker get to you. She's just...had some difficult times, is all." he says to you.

You look at him and raise an eyebrow.

"Believe it or not, she's actually a good person. She'd give her life for any one of us and just wants the best; she just has a unique way of expressing it." Genji added on.

You scoff at that, not really believing him.

"No, I'm serious. You'll have to ask her why she is the way she is since it wouldn't be right for me to tell you. Once she tells you, you'll understand." he tells you, "But don't bother asking right now. She doesn't trust you enough to do her laundry, much less to tell you about her past that brought her to this point."

You two turn a corner and Genji continues.

"You'll have to go on a few deployments with her first and prove your worth. You do that, she'll warm up to you." he says, "I'm honoured to have Widowmaker on our team. I would want no other sniper. I think Tracer will tell you the same. You'll understand why that is very soon."

You bob your head side to side in contemplation.

"As for the whole 'rivalry' between Widowmaker and Tracer...well...that's how it's always been. Both of them are pretty headstrong, perhaps from the fact that both were pulled from their nation's most elite units, so they tend to clash a lot. But we're family at the end of the day; any one of us would lay our lives down for the others no questions asked. She's just worried that you won't integrate and/or do the same for us."

You slowly nod your head, beginning to understand.

"I don't know if you were told this, but we lost our former DM, Ace. He was another from SAS. He was well-liked by all of us so when we lost him, we wondered if we even wanted to get another DM since we didn't know if we could find one that would fit in. We didn't for a while, we just went on, just us three. But we all knew we needed one more person." Genji explained, "So if Tracer pulled you on, then she saw something in you. And I trust her judgement. Widowmaker, on the other hand, will take some convincing."

You two stop in front of a steel door with a viewing slot and then Genji banged on it a few times. The person on the other side slid the view port open and looked out. Genji looked at him.

"It's me."

They shut the viewport and then opened the door.

"Genji." he said, nodding his head at him.

He then turned his attention to you.

"And you must be that FNG Tracer was talking about. Viper, was it?"

You nod your head. He extended his hand out to shake and you reciprocate, shaking his hand.

"I'm Trader Joe. And just like Trader Joe's, I can get you quality stuff for cheap. In this case, free since the UN pays for it." he says, "So take whatever you like and need."

Genji motions you to go inside and pick out your weapons as he goes to grab his own, a Mk48 machine gun. You look around and decide to settle on the suppressed FN SCAR-H for your primary weapon and an H&K VP9 for your sidearm.

"Ah, a DM, huh? I should've figured." Trader Joe said.

You nod your head at that.

"Well then those are both fine choices. That SCAR-H will serve you well, as I'm sure you already know since you've probably trained with them by now."

He then reached under the counter and pulled out 6 SCAR magazines and 4 VP9 magazines and slid them towards you.

"Here's the mags. You'll have to load them up in the room over. I just have the weapons here."

"Come on, Viper. Let's go." Genji says.

You follow after him, waving 'bye' to Trader Joe and then going to the ammo room. Inside, Widowmaker is also there loading up her magazines as well. You look away from her and pulled out the ammo cans with 7.62x51mm NATO and 9mm stamped on them. Then, you begin loading your magazines one at a time, a bullet at a time. Widowmaker, whom had previously been caught up in loading up her magazines with .338 Lapua, looked up when she heard the clicking of you beginning to load up.

"A SCAR Heavy? Do you think you're some kind of sniper?" Widowmaker jeered.

"Relax, Widowmaker. Leave Viper alone." Genji told her as he went to look for the ammo belts for his Mk48.

"You on Viper's side now, Genji?"

"No, I just don't want to hear you run your mouth." Genji shot back.

"Hah." Widowmaker chuckled.

She turned her attention back to you.

"Well have fun with your little glorified assault rifle." she says, "Because the difference between you and I is that I'm the real deal. I'm a real sniper; you're just a glorified grunt. So just stay out of my way, rookie."

You look over at her and give her a hard glare. Widowmaker stood her ground and just smirked at you. You look back down and just decide to concentrate on loading up your mags instead of paying Widow any mind. She finished up loading her magazines and then took them, passing by you and shoulder checking you hard. You give her an incredulous look and she holds her arms out.

"What? Try me, rookie! Swing!" she urged as she gets up in your face.

You puff out your chest and size her up.

"Go ahead! Hit me! Fucking do it! Hit me right here!" she shouts as she taps the side of her head.

"That's enough!" Genji boomed as he stepped in between you two and shoved Widowmaker hard.

"Get out of here, Widowmaker! You're done! Go wait in the heli!" he ordered sternly, pointing to the door, "Go on! Get!"

Widowmaker lets out a small chuckle and just looks you up and down.

"Know your place, rookie."

You clench your fist at that and have a burning desire to drive your fist into her temple and show her what you're made of but you show mature restraint. You resolve to prove her your worth on the battlefield; that would be the best way to prove someone like her that she was the idiot for ever doubting you or your abilities. You jump a little as you feel Genji's hand rest on your shoulder but then quickly relax.

"Don't let her get to you, Viper. Like I said, Widowmaker can be difficult. But don't stoop to her level because that just makes you the asshole and you're the one that will get shit-canned since you're the FNG." Genji tells you, "Just wait until the mission to prove yourself. A good performance will shut her up real quick."

You take in a long breath and then let it out, nodding your head at that. He pats your shoulder and lets you get back to work. You finish loading your last mag just as Genji let out an enthusiastic 'yatta!' when he found his ammo belts. He looked over at you and saw that you're done.

"Ah, have you been waiting for me?" he asked, rubbing the back of his head.

You shake your head 'no'.

"Oh, good." he said, "Well, come on, get squared away and let's get to the heli. We still have a few minutes left before we take off."

You stuff your magazines into their respective pouches and make sure everything's in working order. Genji then leads you out and you two make your way outside where the heli was preparing for takeoff. You see Widomaker sitting on the edge of the heli, earbuds in her ears and her foot tapping to the beat of the music, her Sako TRG-42 resting in her lap. You just ignore her. You're not trying to get into an altercation with your brand new team mate, no matter how much you want to. Luckily for you, she ignores you as well though she and Genji bump fists.

"Where's Tracer?" Genji asked her.

"Don't know. She should be here any moment."

You look over and see Tracer making her way over, her M320-equipped H&K 416 hanging off her chest and a Sig P226 in her drop-leg. You point at her. Genji followed the direction of your finger and spotted her as well.

"Speak of the devil."

"Alright, everybody in!" Tracer said.

All four of you get completely into the helicopter and Tracer slid the door closed once everyone was inside and patted the pilot on the shoulder to let them know that everyone was in and to take off. He fired up the rotors and then they were off.

The ride over to the LZ would take about 2 hours, most of which were spent in silence; Widowmaker was napping while Genji was meditating. Tracer spent most of it flipping between a map and a notepad and you just kind of sit there awkwardly wondering when the ride was going to be over. Unfortunately though, as the helicopter got closer to its destination, your nerves start to act up.

"Approaching LZ in 5 minutes." the pilot said over comms.

Now your nerves really start running rampant. You start breathing deep as the LZ become visible in the distance. You jump a little when Widowmaker reaches out and smacks your shoulder.

"What's wrong, Viper? Nerves getting to you?" she jeered.

You nod your head in honesty.

"Well you'd better hold up your end or I'll put you down myself." she says to you.

You shake your head vigorously that you would never abandon the team. Widowmaker then let out a bellowing laugh.

"Relax, rookie. I'm just, eh, how you Americans say it; 'fucking with you'." she laughed.

You just shake your head. You're getting real tired of her antics.

"Hey, leave Viper alone. You had 'first mission' nerves too, Widow. Don't lie." Tracer shot back.

Tracer places her hand on your shoulder and squeezes it reassuringly as Widowmaker rolls her eyes and leans in towards Genji and says something in his ear before the two laugh. You look over at them for a moment and then back down at your rifle.

"Don't worry Viper, I remember my first mission, too. I'll never forget it. I was so scared I nearly pissed my trousers. No amount of training can prepare you for the feelings that arise when you know that there's a very real chance you'll come back in a body bag or in pieces." she says to you as you turn your gaze back towards her.

You shiver at the thought. She reaches into one of her pouches and then pulled out a stick of gum and holds it out to you. You look at it and then at her, visibly confused.

"Here, take this. I find it helps calm my nerves a little."

You reach out and hesitate for a moment before taking the stick of gum and then pulling the wrapper off and then stuffing the stick of gum in your mouth and begin chewing vigorously. It helps a little, but not nearly as much as you want it to, though it is your favourite flavour of gum, which is somewhat comforting.

The final seconds leading up to the LZ approach were probably the worst. You feel like your heart's about to pop out of your chest or explode from pounding so fast. You feel the helicopter stop and lower slightly. Tracer opens the door and then kicks the Fast Rope out, swinging her rifle behind her before descending down. Widowmaker was next sliding down the rope and then Genji motions you to go. You descend down the rope and draw your rifle at the low-ready as Genji descends down the rope. Once he was down, Tracer turned and and stared at the cockpit and raised her hand up and made circles, motioning the pilot that it was clear for them to take off. Everyone stayed stationary as the helicopter took off and didn't move until they it was completely out of sight and could no longer be heard.

"Comms check." Tracer says.

"I'm good." Genji says.

"Oui, communications are online."

She then looks over at you. You fiddle with your radio a moment as you didn't hear anything in your earpiece.

"Viper? Your comms working?" she asks.

When she says that, you heard her over comms and then you look over and flash a thumbs up, signaling that you're good.

"Alright, let's move out."

All four of you stand up and make your way to the target.