A/N- This is one in many one short Overwatch one shots to come! I do not own Overwatch nor the characters, this is just something I did for writing practice and wanted to share it. I am also new to so everything might be wonky...Enjoy!
Saturday, the perfect day for Lúcio to invite a bunch of friends to have fun with him. He had already booked a laser tag tournament between him at least ten other friends. He smiled at his phone as he got the last confirmation text from Akande, confirming that he would attend this tournament. It was not a huge event but Lúcio was not looking to have that many people, just friends to hang out with and have fun with for the day.
Quickly Lúcio slipped on his sports clothes, for easy movement purposes, and pulled on his black and green tennis shoes. He had to make sure he was the first one at the place to make sure everything was in order and he was excited about the event that would take place in a mere hour. Once ready, his green tinted sunglasses perched on top his head, he headed out, flipping them down once outside.
Lúcio got into his car at his own pace, driving down to the desired destination before parking and heading inside to confirm the reservation. Upon stepping into the building his eyes widened with delight, he could see a large black wall not too far from the entrance, behind it must be the 'battlefield' they were to fight on. It was supposed to be two floors of obstructed view and places to hide and shoot.
It took him a minute to stop looking at the large wall and turn his attention to the numerous amount of arcade games that filled the area between the doors and the wall. To the far left of himself he could see the front desk for the backroom activities and started toward it. Once he arrived he greeted the ladies that were talking behind the counter "Do you have a reservation?" one of them asked right off the bat to which Lúcio nodded.
"I am scheduled for 3pm." Lúcio handed over the online receipt and watched as one of the ladies started clicking away at the computer searching for it. It took the lady a bit of time to actually find it which was causing Lúcio a bit of doubt, maybe he should have made sure that it was confirmed earlier.
"You are quite early; the last game reservation hasn't ended yet." The lady said making Lúcio let out a relived breath, he already knew that. "The earliest we can let out in is in about 30 minutes." The lady mentioned, eyes moving from Lúcio to another behind him though Lúcio didn't notice.
Lúcio nodded as he accepted his receipt back "Of course-" his sentence was cut off when he felt huge hands on his shoulders, the sudden pressure startling him as he turned his head as quick as he could to find a friend of his had come way too early. "Akande!" he yelled with a growing smile as he ducked from under the large man's hands and leaned against the counter a moment to retain his balance.
"Don't be a jerk, man!" Lúcio said in a joking tone as he finished tucking his receipt into his pocket and started to walk toward the arcade machines alongside Akande "What are you even doin' here so early?" he asked, glancing up to the other as he walked down one of the many rows of machines.
"I wanted to make sure I could find the building." He said simply as he followed Lúcio, glancing from machine to machine. He was not quite interested in these games but it was interesting to see the variety of genres they had.
"So, you came an hour early. Whatever, you can do you." He said raising his hands in mercy, wasn't his fault that Akande would have to spend half an hour waiting to do something. The half an hour between them was spent with Lúcio playing video games with Akande watching and occasionally joining in.
Lúcio had to admit, for being a friend he had not spent a lot of time with Akande, he should consider more outings with him because he was actually great fun! After what seemed like hours of fun Lúcio found himself spotting a few more friends entering the area, wait how long had it been? He looked at his watch to find that it was 15 minutes until the starting round, the fun round where no one gets eliminated. Lúcio approached the friends, giving a friendly greeting while Akande stood back from it, greeting with a hello and slight wave of and hand.
Lúcio gestured everyone to follow to the counter where the lady he had spoken to earlier walked out with a key and lead the group to the waiting room where they would put on their vests and get their weapons. Soon enough more and more people joined until all ten people were present and ready to go. Everyone had certain clothing items that were glowing within the light, for Lúcio it happened to be the white stripes on his sports shorts.
Upon being let into the arena everyone scattered, some sprinting around trying to find the stairs while others started hiding right off the bat. It was not until the voice over the intercom started counting down until the round was to start that Lúcio slowed his sprinting and hid himself between a large glowing rock and a wall with a few holes in it. When the buzzer sounded off the start of the first round he waited, listening for the sound of beeping which signalled the 'death' of someone.
When he heard it, he sprinted from his spot, taking aim at someone nearby and hitting them spot on with a loud groan from the target, who just so happened to be named Hana. Lúcio let out a laugh as he kept sprinting between walls and around obstacles, occasionally climbing over them as he took aim at multiple people before someone finally got him. When he turned to see his attacker it was none other than Akande, he could see a rival had arose, the question was how did Lúcio not see him?
The round continued until the voice stated that the round was over and they all returned to the waiting room to see their scores and where they ranked. Lúcio was in second place, Akande in third, and in first place, to everyone's surprise, was Zenyatta. For the first few minutes after seeing this Zenyatta had gotten a lot of looks of disbelief.
Each round past the first eliminated the bottom two people, it kept going until there was only two people left in the game. Surprisingly Zenyatta, who had ranked first in three separate rounds, had been eliminated when Lúcio took the lead. It continued until only Lúcio and Akande were left in the game, roaming around trying to target one another.
Lúcio jumped over an obstacle, shaped to look like a bolder and looked around some more, he literally could not find Akande. For being such a large man, he was difficult to pin, though Lúcio knew that if he finally found him he did have speed on his side. It was only when he made his way up the ramp to the next floor that he took a deep breath and started walking around with his guard down while trying to get a breather.
Sadly, it was during this time that Lúcio found the familiar feeling of a large hand on his shoulder, a startled yelp coming from him as the force pushed him into a space between three walls that formed a small cubical. When he was about to raise his weapon to shoot a hand was placed on his chin, lifting it before lips pressed against his.
He was more startled than anything, enough so that his gun nearly fell from his hands. As quick as it came the lips left along with the heartbreaking sound of his vest beeping at him, signalling he got shot. "You were a good rival." Akande said as he walked away, the voice counting down to the end of the match quicker than his vest could power on. All the while Lúcio stood there, jaw dropped at what had just happened, entirely speechless. Akande won, perhaps more than he thought he would win.