Yo Joe? Or knowing is half the battle.
Jack Morrison and Gabriel Reyes sat down at a corner table in the seedy little cantina in
Dorado, fittingly named the Hogs breath. This was the first time they had met in a non
adversarial condition since the Overwatch Headquarters was destroyed in Switzerland. Both
men thought it was time to sit down and talk rather than fight. Things were getting to the
point that if they didn't sit down both the reactivated members of Overwatch and the members
of Talon would destroy each other and the rest of the world in the process.
They had been friends once and now were talking again like the old friends they once were
fondly about their teen years when they first met and were inspired by their Uncles Conrad
Hauser and Hector Delgado, both members of the old GI Joe team, the predecessors of
Overwatch and how they both influenced their young minds.
You know the old Joe team our Uncles led really had their shit together growled Jack in his
trademark gravelly voice. They always fought the good fight no matter who they were facing
be it COBRA or some other evil organizations threatening the safety of the world he said. I
don't know about that chuckled Gabriel. It seemed like my Uncle Hector spent more time
chasing that Hottie Covergirl he finally married around and trying to keep their relationship
on the down low from the rest of the team. Yeah I guess your right about Hector laughed
Jack. But they knew when to kick ass and who's asses to kick he growled. We worked hard
shaping the Overwatch team in their Image, We both did he said. If you hadn't taken after
your Uncle Shipwreck so much I wouldn't have had to take over as Overwatches Commander
and poster boy. Gabriel just grinned his deathly grin and said, yeah I did chase the skirts a
little too much and I didn't like the oversight the UN kept forcing on us. I guess that was the
dark side of my personality showing. Now days that's all of my personality that shows.
Gabriel don't you think you could see your way to coming back into the fold, give up on Talon
They're just using you! Come back and help me make Overwatch an organization to be proud
of again! Like it was in the beginning when we were worked together to be successors to our
Uncles organization, The GI Joe team. They were the best and you and I worked hard to make
Overwatch the best too jack said. I don't know Jack, can you and I look past all our
differences and anger to work together again? Gabriel said. Can you and I actually lead
teams like Overwatch and Blackwatch and make them what they once were, teams under one
organization for the greater good of the world? We had some lofty ideas once. Can we have
them again? I'm not so sure too much water hasn't gone under the bridge Jack.
How will we know if we don't try Gabriel? You and I were once best friends, best friends since
we were ten years old. I was so proud when we were chosen to form Overwatch. One of the
reasons I was so proud is because I was doing it with my best friend and I knew how proud
we were making Uncle Duke and Uncle Shipwreck!