Prologue
They say that in war, the first casualty is the truth. Morrison was always reminded of that quote ever since he was on the front line against the omincs in Los Angelas. 'What was that 30 years ago?' Morrison thought, He looked at himself in the broken mirror, multiple shards lay on the floor and cracks in the glass itself showed splinters of morrisons face. With his mask off he took a long hard look at himself, He was getting old and so was the people around him and he knew this well, but no matter what he was still strong, could run for hours on end without breaking a sweat and could still bench more than the average soldier by a mile.
"What are you thinking about Jack?" spoke Ana Amari,
An Ex Egyptian soldier who was of the founders of Overwatch. She was of similar age as jack if not older, she wore her regular attire of a purple and black coat with a blue neon color along with a helmet but the helmet was on the table behind them in the room. The most defining feature of Amari was the eye patch with the Eye of Horus below it.
Morrison sighed "Do you ever think about how we ended up in this situation, how all this started? How we lost so much including the people around us?"
The Soldier wasn't angry. No, it was the sign of exhaustion. Ever since the Overwatch HQ was destroyed, he had been on the run always looking over his Shoulder. He was betrayed by one of his best friends.
"I think about it all the time" The sniper spoke. She pulled out of her satchel a small device that projected an image of a young child. It was her daughter Farheea Amari when she was a child. Times were easier then.
"But no matter how hard gets, I just look at my daughter and think I always have her to fight for, because you should never stop fighting for what you believe in" Ana smiled, she missed her daughter. Even though she was in the same city as here at the moment she couldn't bring herself to show that she was still alive...Not yet anyway there was still too much going on with too many questions still unanswered.
"This fight is still not finished; we have work to do" Morrison spoke. He backed away from the mirror and spoke again through the house with Ana listening and following behind.
"We need to take a look at this from another angle, we are missing something. Reaper being here in Cairo with the both of us is no coincidence. Talon must be making moves in Africa now" Morrison grabbed a laptop sized device on the side and powered it up. It was similar to Ana's small device but lit up the whole room in a 3D projection of all the information Morrison had found out in his years of being on the run.
"Everything is somehow connected to one another but the middle piece is missing as are a few other things" Morrison spoke. Ana looked at him.
"I'm assuming you have a few theories?" Ana replied.
"A couple but none that are solid, not without evidence anyway" Soldier looked in far thought. 'I hope I'm wrong about a few of these assumptions'
" I'm listening Jack" Ana looked at him, Genuine interest in her one eye.
"To start, We know that 30 years ago the Ominc crisis was caused by a malfunctioning AI that was left to its own devices and began its war on humanity "Jack started with Ana nodding.
"Not only did it start as a single AI but it splintered itself to every omnium on the planet to cause its war on humanity." Morrison Continued
"Jack, I don't mean to be a burden but what has this got to do with Talon or anything else that's going on?" Ana said to Morrison. She believed in Morrison always that's why she always took his side...most of the time.
"What if..." Morrison looked Ana directly into her eye. "What if we missed one?" Morrison said seriously.
"A God program? Jack that's farfetched even for you, this is something that Joshua would come up with" Ana replied, A little Smirk on her face to hear something from the Ex-overwatch commander that sounded a bit ridiculous.
"Ana, I know how stupid this sounds, I mean for Fucks sake in the last 30 years we have seen some crazy shit all the way from teleportation to a talking gorilla that has the highest IQ of any know lifeform on this planet" Jack Replied. Ana looked at him and gave a small chuckle.
"Ok Jack, yes we have seen as you put it some crazy shit in our time. But what are you saying jack? That a war mind from 30 years ago that we purged ourselves is still out there controlling everything from nowhere and evaded us this whole time?" Ana had a serious look face. She thought to herself this is it, he's lost his mind.
"Look we know how there were 7 known programs and we know that they were splintered from a single AI that was developed by the Omnica corporation. We never found the original Ana?" Morrison looked at her deadpanned
"Jack even if that was true and there was one AI still out there somewhere controlling everything from the shadows, how could it have gotten away with everything this whole time? This is too big for you Jack; we are too old for this now. It's time to go somewhere and have a Cabana on the beach"
"Maybe your right, But I need to know the truth Ana. If only we still had a team to do it with" Jack stood up and felt the age of war on his body kick in and gave a small grunt. He looked around this small apartment that he called home. It had 2 Persian styled sofa chairs with a beautiful carpet of a similar pattern. A table with a few chairs and a light from the ceiling. Not much personal affects except a photo frame that Ana kept of herself, Jack, Gabriel and Joshua.
"Jack those were the old days, Overwatch is banned and all us old timers are ready to retire. I do miss everyone though" Ana said with a depressed tone.
"Overwatch doesn't need to be brought back, what's the point?" Morrison sighed, as soon as he finished his small laptop device started flashing and out of nowhere a warning came up with the words
OVERWATCH RECALL
Morrison and Ana both looked at each other and back at the device and a video started to play with a very familiar Gorilla.
"Hmmm is this thing on?" It was Winston fiddling with a recording device that showed his face. The video then jumped forward to him facing to his right with a bunch of papers, obviously a script.
"I've made a chronal accelerator, I'm sure I can do this"
Meanwhile in Kings row, A perky Brit with her Girlfriend were in bed looking at a familiar face on her old overwatch personal device that was playing the same video.
"OM MY GOD, its Winston!" the brit cried with both herself and her girlfriend Emily looked in Awestruck.
"Too all overwatch agents...No that's not right" Winston said with a failing look. Another occupant that was watching the video elsewhere in the world was a Cyborg and his Friend that had a unique ability was watching on a similar device in the Himalayas.
"Winston?" Said Genji who couldn't express disbelief even more if he tried.
"You know this intelligent Primal?" Said the Monk in a robotic voice
"Yeah...He's an old friend" Genji replied and if you could see his face you could see a smile.
"To the former agents of overwatch, This is Winston ahaha...Obviously" In the outback of the American desert was train that was travelling in the vast noon was A lone gunslinger sitting in the back corner behind some boxes watching the same video.
"Well now, I be damned" said Mccree taking a drag from his cigar.
"30 Years ago, the omnics declared war" Winston said pushing a picture of an old titan attacking a city full of people. The only man to show a hint of distress was a small dwarf who was in his workshop fixing an old Bastion unit that he found in his home country of Sweden. He took of his helmet to look at the video that emerging form a device that has been Dusting away.
"Hmm I wonder what that ape is up to" Torbjorn looked at the picture with a hint of sadness.
"Beep-Boop-bhmmm" The bastion unit said in a sad beep tone. It was hard for an expert such as Torbjorn to understand how this bastion was emitting feelings like this.
"The Nations of the world had no answer until they called upon a small group of heroes. Overwatch was created to rescue humanity from the Ominic Crisis" The Old knight was been patched up by his squire behind their van just outside of Eichenwalde.
"Haha Its Winston my old friend!" shouted the ever so happy German, His squire was however not impressed.
"Reinhardt, Stop moving so much or you will tear open your wound" Brigitte said, She loved Reinhardt and loved the adventures they go on but the more he grew older the more she became compassionate of him retiring for good.
"Don't worry, I will live we have to listen to this" Reinhardt bellowed
"We became the greatest champions of peace and progress mankind has ever seen" Winston continued. In a tent in the middle of a refugee camp was a beautiful doctor that looked like she had not seen a rest of day since the day she was born.
"Ah Winston, Its been a while" She said with a thick swiss accent. Taking a sip from a green tea she had made whilst examining notes from all the issues from the refuges on camp.
"YOU were chosen because you had powers and abilities that made you...you joined! Because you..." On the back of a talon transport ship a black clad mercenary was sitting in the room by himself staring at he video with hatred. He smashed the table with his fist.
"Overwatch..." Reaper said with nothing but venom. His time to end overwatch will come.
"You already know this...look the people decided they were better off without us...They even called us criminals...They tore our family apart" Winston said with a depressed tone. On the bottom of the planet earth a noble scientist was attempting to escape the arctic circle and was hanging off a transmission tower looking for help.
"Winston, Is that you?" Mei said with a smile but was automatically hurt again when she heard the words, they tore our family apart and called us criminals.
"BUT look around... SOMEONE HAS TO DO SOMETHING...WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING...We can make a difference again!" Winston shouted with passion.
In an abandoned outpost in Norway a lone soldier sits with a fire in the middle of the large room, the roof was blown open and the snow howl of the night was blowing cold air. On the floor of the room was a broken Blackwatch symbol, the soldier was sat upon a large ammunition box with a rifle by his side, he was currently fixing his cybernetic right arm that was ripped by a pack of wolves that strayed around the area. He looked at his old device and a smile appeared with both his normal eye and cybernetic eye grew at the passion by Winston.
"Good on you Winston, Good speech" The soldier smiled.
"The world needs us now, more than ever...Are you with me?" Winston finished. Both the old soldiers sat in their hideout. Both were gob smacked by the turn of events. Morrison spoke first.
"Well I will be damned" Morrison looked at the still image of a smug Winston
"Be careful what you wish for Jack" as Ana took a sip from here tea. "Are you in Jack?" Ana looked straight at Jack
"No not yet, they aren't ready, Besides what's the point? We have our own mission" Morrison said and looked at Ana
"Are you with me?" Morrison asked Ana.
"Always" Ana replied.
"Good, Let's start at the beginning." Morrison then grabbed the device and found the first entry.