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The cold night of Norway brought a chill into the agent's bodies, a non welcoming greeting.
"Looks like the whether wants us to go home too." Tracer joked but no one laughed at her comment.
Her team was on a dangerous mission to check out a small secret laboratory deep in the forest. From what Athena had told them is that Talon was developing a secret weapon here. A project called: Project Howl.
"It will be difficult to get in there. This ain't gonna be easy." McCree said as he handed the binoculars to Mercy next to him.
"Yes, I see seven guards and a series of security cameras." Mercy replied, she looked up at Genji next to her, crouching in a tree not far from them.
"Are you sure you can handle this?" she asked with a worried look.
Genji looked down at her and nodded encouraging to her before bounding away like a swift cat. Tracer zipped away after him and left Mercy and McCree behind. They watched as the green and blue lights zipped between the guards and watched as they fell to the ground. A sight they were all to familiar with. Once the coast was clear, Genji's voice spoke into their ear pieces, telling them they could come out from the brush they were in. When they had arrived Tracer was working with the entrance code on a keypad.
"Is everyone alright?" Mercy asked, her staff clutched in her hand.
Genji nodded to her and then turned to see the doors of the lab opening after Tracer broke the code. The inside was bright and the white aluminum walls blared the agent's eyes as they entered. The room had hovering vehicles and other unused equipment stashed in the corners. Dust had collected over them and gave them a tan color that symbolized their uselessness. The storage unit was quite, almost to quiet. The place was deserted. As the group walked through the odd quite facility they sensed a unnatural,ominous feeling to it. They had approached a large door and Tracer typed in the same code on a keypad. The door opened to reveal a long dark hallway which they walked through the hall with caution at a slow pace. They had found some abandoned rooms that had been left in a hurry. One which they stumbled upon was extremely unsettling. The room was large and desolate with signs of struggle which involved large claw marks on the wall and bite marks in steel.
"Kinda ominous." Tracer said, her guns in hand.
After they passed through some of the other rooms and halls hey finally came across another room which made them all gasp in horror. Seven scientists laid on the floor or slumped against the white wall. All had been slaughtered, their red blood had been sprayed across the room. Some people had their limbs ripped off and one man's head was half way off. The agent's starred with wide eyes at the sight, no one moved, no one spoke. Mercy went to one man's body and studied the damage only to gasp in horror.
"What is it?" Genji asked as his eyes settled on the angel.
"We need to leave…" she spoke hastily.
"What? But our mission?" McCree protested.
"We have seen enough...these people all have bite marks...whatever did this to them was some sort of likely the animal that was in that room."
Mercy's voice made the group's blood turn cold. Mercy backed away from the bodies, kinda feeling sick. As a doctor she had seen a lot of blood, but nothing like this. A door on the other side of the room was open to reveal another turn into a hall. A man's body laid there in the doorway too. A sudden scream from nearby echoed through the hall, making the agent's jump and alert. Mercy was the first to run toward the open door and was shortly followed by her team members. The hallway seemed so long and the light at the end seemed so far. When the hall ended Mercy and her team found themselves on a cat walk over looking over another testing room with blood and bodies everywhere. In the center of the hellish room was a girl, only about thirteen years old, her hospital gown caked with blood. That wasn't the unsettling part though. It was the pointed dog like ears on the top of her head. From what they saw of the girl, she had auburn hair and pale skin stained with the red color of blood. They couldn't see her face but her other features were unmistakable. The ears, to the fluffy auburn and white tail had made the team stare in awe and fear of the creature before them. In front of her stood a guard with blood stained on his clothes and a strange gun in his hand.
"Stand back...you...can't escape...I won't let you!" he cried, he fired the gun, sending a bolt of electricity to the girl.
She swiftly leaped out of the way with a large leap that was quick and flawless. The man fired another bolt and missed again. The girl was so quick and agile, she looked like a small blur zipping around the room. When the girl had a clear shot at the man, she charged at him and the team watched in horror as the girl began to rip him apart. She bit his arm and tore it off with her teeth and was going for his neck. The man put the muzzle of the gun to her stomach and pulled the trigger, a bolt of electricity shot through the girl making her stunned and paralyzed by pain. She released the man and stumbled back but not before she dug her hand into his gut. The man's screams were followed by his blood spraying out of his wounds. He released the gun but the electricity still held her in a painful position. Her yelps echoed through the room, making Mercy jump from the catwalk and float down gracefully to the floor.
"Mercy no!" Tracer's voice shouted behind her but Mercy ignored it, her focus was on the creature.
Mercy ran to the gun holding the girl and raised her staff over her head high. She jabbed her staff into the gun, shattering it and releasing the girl. Mercy watched as the girl fell limp to the ground in a puddle of blood that wasn't her own. Mercy dropped her staff and ran to the motionless girl she had saved. When she had reached her the angel put her hand under the girl's head and tilted her body upward. The girl's rapid breathing was painful to hear but her suffering was over and Mercy held her there in her arms while rocking her body back and forth.
"It is alright now...everything is fine now…" Mercy whispered, footsteps came running to her and before she knew it Genji was at her side.
Even from behind his visor and with Mercy's gaze not on him, she could tell how much shock was coming from him.
"Damn you…" a sudden soft, husky voice spoke from a wall. They turned to see the man who had tortured the girl was lying in a pool of his blood.
"That counts seventeen...times she has tried to escape…" his husky laugh was sickening to hear. "That thing...would have turned our war with you around in our favor...but now it seems like she will no longer be Talon's war dog...like she was designed to be...a weapon...no...a monster…" with that the man died, leaving the four agents alone in the facility.
Tracer knelt down beside Mercy as she cradled the motionless girl with a concerned glare at the man.
"She did this?" her voice trailed off as she looked around at the bodies the girl had demolished.
"Seventeen times…" Mercy finally said as her eyes lingered on the face of the creature she held in her arms. "You tried to escape…" her words made the team linger in silence and they realized how far someone would go...for freedom.