The ocean beneath the crashing helicopter raged, the waves moving side to side and slammed into one another. Smoke enveloped the sky in a dark cloud, and only made the cloudy evening even darker. The helicopter pilot frantically pulled the controls forwards and back trying to avoid crashing straight into the ocean. He knew he had a few minutes before the helicopter would make contact with the water, but he wanted to make sure the landing was as light as he could possibly make it.
In the back of the helicopter, sat Team Talon, the three frantically staring out the side door, and looking around for anyway to escape the soon to be crashed helicopter. Sombra, pulled up her screens in front of her, trying to see if she could by any means hack into the helicopter and gently place it down once they approached land, but her expressions indicated her failure of seeing any such information. On the other end sat Reaper, his skull mask hiding his annoyed and raging expression, and Widowmaker sitting on one knee beside him, her Sniper Rifle angled in front of her, one eye closed and the other looking closely through the scope.
Behind Team Talon flew in Overwatch, the team being flown by a more highly advanced aircraft unlike Team Talon's average helicopter. In the door frame, avoiding Reaper and Widowmaker's shots stood Soldier 76, his buff figure almost completely taking up the door, and beside him stood Ana, holding a Sniper Rifle like Widowmaker. When Reaper or Widowmaker would shoot the two would quickly hide behind the wall, and reposition themselves back into the door frame to fire a counter shot.
"Winston! How much time do they have left?! The heli should be making a crash landing soon!" yelled Soldier 76 over his shoulder, but keeping his eyes fixated on the aircraft in front of them, looking at his two targets and then at the massive, gaping hole they had shot into the helicopter.
"Soon," Winston yelled back in reply, his massive fingers typing away quickly at the computer, "it seems they're trying to find land and gently crash there, but from what I can see there is no land for hundreds of miles!"
Soldier 76 nodded his head and turned back towards the Talon owned helicopter in front of them, and continued shooting towards Widowmaker and Reaper, hiding behind the frame of the door whenever Widowmaker's bullets would fly towards them. Ana looked towards 76 with a worried expression, "Jack, they're not going to give up," she said, her accent strong trying to hold the fear back in her voice. 76's eyebrows furrowed behind his mask as she called him by his real name and hoped that what she said wasn't true, but at the same time he knew it was true. He knew the three members of Talon wouldn't give up especially Reaper and Widowmaker. "The strongest of the three is Talon's machine," Ana said, meaning Widowmaker.
Jack thought for a moment and remembered that Widowmaker was once a real person who went by the name Amélie Lacroix. Her husband, Gérard Lacroix, was once a member of Overwatch, but he was assassinated by his own wife. She was kidnapped by Talon, and went through many experiments, losing the beautiful color of her skin, her heartbeat slowing down to something almost nonexistent, and losing all of her memories of anything before Talon. She was once a friend of the many people in Overwatch, but those friendships were long gone, along with her true existence.
"We have to take her down to get to the other two. You know Reaper and that hacker don't stand a chance without her."
Jack looked towards Ana as she spoke, unsure that he really wanted to attempt to kill the woman. He turned and noticed all the people in Overwatch helicopter looking at him, including Winston. He knew he had to make a decision.
At the beginning of this mission, he didn't have any ideas of killing anyone. He wanted to capture the three and interrogate them, and get answers about Talon and what they were truly trying to do.
Looking at his team's eyes, he could see what they all wanted. Looking at Ana and then back down at the ground, he nodded, and continued to hide behind the door frame.
In the Talon helicopter, Reaper and Widowmaker continued to shoot towards the Overwatch heli, occasionally turning away to look at Sombra, and to see if there was any land nearby. In a rough voice Reaper looked towards Sombra and yelled, "Where the hell is land? You said you would search?! Any longer and this helicopter is going down!"
Sombra growled under her breath and looked towards him, still trying to hack into the helicopter behind them and into theirs and also find land all at the same time, "I can only do so much, Reaper!" The frustration could be seen in her eyes and she looked back towards her screens continuing to work her best efforts.
A shot rang out, as one of Ana's bullets shot into the helicopter, the bullet penetrating the wall near Widowmaker and Reaper, Widowmaker leaning forward and also shooting a bullet into the Overwatch helicopter. "At this rate, we aren't going to last long," Widowmaker spoke, her words echoing through Sombra and Reaper.
"What do you expect us to do? This is all that we can do. I can't reach my shadows towards the helicopter, and Sombra's teleportation can't reach that far. If you used your grappling hook, they would know you're trying to break in and you would be taken down in an instant," Reaper said in an angry voice, trying to avoid the bullets Soldier 76 was shooting at them. "Unless we find land, we are screwed!"
Sombra looked up from her screens, and Widowmaker and Reaper looked towards her, seeing a frustrated but worried expression on her face, "I can't find any land for almost 1,000 miles..."
Reaper and Widowmaker looked at her worriedly and then towards each other, this being the first time Reaper and Sombra had seen Widowmaker with such a concerned look. Widowmaker scoffed, looking towards the helicopter behind them, seeing Soldier 76 and Ana looking towards them. She looked back, staring at the ground in thought.
"There's only one thing we can do."
Back at the Overwatch helicopter, Ana prepped her gun, reloading after she had shot off the rest of her bullets. "Jack, I know you don't want to do this, but it's the only way we can get Reaper and Sombra. We have no other way. That woman is the reason why Talon has been kicking our ass!" 76 had never cared about Reaper ever since Overwatch fell, and never cared about his feelings, but after seeing the way Reaper and Widowmaker interacted with one another, he knew that there was a connection even if the two Talon members lived in darkness and didn't have any feelings.
"Alright. Winston, keep the helicopter steady!" He yelled back towards his scientist friend, then looking back at Ana, "Get prepared."
"Widowmaker you're fucking insane!" Reaper grabbed her by her shoulders and shook her, "There is no way in hell you can do this. Overwatch is our enemy. We can't just try and talk to them."
Widowmaker looked at him with her golden irises, the same cold expression on her face that she always had. "There is nothing else we can do, Gabriel."
Although Reaper was wearing his normal skull mask, you could still tell he had a surprised expression, even Sombra sitting behind them looked surprised, the two never hearing Widowmaker sound so serious, and especially not using anyone's real name. Sombra and Reaper looked at one another and then he looked back at Widowmaker, "If we try to talk to them they will kill all of us, and if not that than they will take us from Talon and tear us apart," he leaned in towards her, shaking her shoulders a bit. She ripped herself out of his grasp and backed up a bit, standing in the doorway of the helicopter. "Sombra get in contact with them, and we'll try t-"
A shot rang out, and for a moment there was silence.
Everything started going in slow motion. Sombra and Reaper stood still for a moment, Sombra's screens disappearing and Reaper dropped his shotguns, the sound of the metal hitting the floor being the only sound that could be heard.
Reaper looked out towards the Overwatch helicopter, and growled, ripping his mask off and quickly turning back to Widowmaker. She stood in silence, her hands shaking and moving up her stomach up to her chest, where blood quickly poured out. Her eyes were wide, and the pupils in her golden eyes were smaller than a little crumb on a dirty floor. Reaper tried to grab onto her, but another shot rang out through the helicopter, the bullet penetrating the wall behind Reaper. Widowmaker stepped back a bit, almost losing her balance and glanced towards Reaper the pain beginning to build up in her body as everything started to slow down.
She reached out towards him, a weak, small smile appearing on her face as she tried to keep herself up right, "Chéri," she said weakly, "souviens-toi de moi." The palm of her hand barely grazed his face, as this was the first time he had ever showed her his true face. Her fingertips grazed the many bruises, smiling as she could finally look at him.
Before he could grip onto her or speak, she stumbled back, her foot slipping off of the edge of the helicopter. Reaper dove himself towards towards her, trying to grab onto her hands, but before he could Sombra grabbed onto his side and shoulder trying to hold him back, "Reaper! Stop! If you jump it will kill you!" He stopped his movements for a moment, watching the trail of blood from Widowmaker's chest flow out a bit as she fell.
Quickly her body went limp as she fell, her eyes closing partially, her irises still somewhat visible. Everything went silent again, her body hitting the water, the lightness of her figure not causing a very big splash.
Before the two remaining Talon members could realize it, the Overwatch helicopter had made its way towards the Talon's aircraft. Soldier 76, Reinhardt, and Genji bombarded the aircraft, immediately grabbing a hold of Reaper and Sombra. Mercy quickly walked over to the pilot alongside Pharah, putting the damaged craft in autopilot. Mercy took care of the pilot and lead him onto the craft, while Reinhardt and Genji put cuffs around Sombra and Reapers wrists.
Reaper was no longer himself. He struggled against Reinhardt's grip, shaking his body and flailing himself everywhere. "YOU BETTER GO AFTER HER! SHE NEVER DID ANYTHING! SHE WAS TRYING TO REACH YOU ALL SO SHE COULD TALK! SHE WAS GOING TO TRY AND JOIN YOU ALL!"
Ana and Soldier 76 looked at one another, Ana's eyes so wide they looked as if they were going to bulge out of her head. Immediately, 76 began regretting his decision, but remembered that the decision he had made was the only choice the team had to getting a hold of Talon.
"We'll search the waters," Soldier 76 said softly, his gaze directed towards the ground, "but it is unlikely she will be alive if we find her."
Reaper relaxed a bit, allowing Reinhardt to hold onto him. Genji lead Sombra to Mercy so she could make sure Sombra's vitals were alright. Although they were apart of Talon and they were the enemy, they still wanted the people they found to be healthy. Reinhardt led Reaper into Overwatch's aircraft, Reaper's body feeling almost weak as Reinhardt sat him down beside Sombra, Mercy checking Sombra's vitals. Sombra sat silently, looking down at the ground a look of sorrow on her face. Reaper looked at her face, then looked away realizing that whatever she was feeling he was also feeling but probably ten times more intense. Every feeling that he thought he no longer had began to come back to him, anger, sadness, happiness, and...love. His stomach churned at the thought, but his thoughts were cut off as Ana approached him, holding his white skull mask. He looked down at it and then looked away. Soldier 76 stood silently beside Ana and watched as Reaper rejected the mask, and the two looked at one another before turning away and approaching Winston, 76 instructing him to head back to their headquarters.
Between Reaper and Sombra was a window, and almost like they could read each other they both turned and looked through it, their gaze directed towards the water where Widowmaker had fallen. Over a communication device, 76 had begun ordering other Overwatch members to begin searching the waters, and he began to describe Widowmaker. Reaper winced hearing him describe her, her slender legs, her stunning, bright eyes, her luscious dark blue hair that, when loose, flowed down her back and stopped right at her knees. His eyes narrowed and Sombra watched his body language from her seat, seeing his anger and sadness.
Everyone sat down in their seats. Everything now silent. No more fighting, no more arguing. For once there was peace, but the two Talon members knew this peace wouldn't last forever.
"Our team is out looking for her," 76 said as he broke the silence, looking towards Sombra and Reaper. Neither of the two replied. Sombra looked towards 76, but Reaper refused to make any eye contact with anyone in the room, his anger building up quickly. He hated everyone on this aircraft. He wanted nothing to do with Overwatch hence why he left once Overwatch was disbanded. He tried to keep himself calm and collected, but he knew that trying to do that was impossible. He was Reaper. He was known for having uncontrollable anger. He knew that Widowmaker wanted to try and talk to these people, but he would never try to befriend the people that killed his one and only friend. The only person that understood him. The only person that saw passed his past, his anger, his hate. The only person that showed any care for him even though she was programmed to show no sign of emotion or feelings. But he knew she had feelings. Whenever they would talk privately he would see a hint of the old Amélie and she would see the real Gabriel for a moment. That's how she made him feel. He felt like him old self when he was with her, but the moment she stepped away from him that feeling would disappear.
After a few hours of sitting on the Overwatch aircraft, Athena came over the intercom of the aircraft, "We are now arriving at Volskaya Industries." Reaper and Sombra looked up a bit from their seats, both of their bodies almost completely weak, "For now Volskaya Industries is the headquarters of Overwatch. Until we can convince the government that we aren't criminals this is where we are staying. Volskaya herself is allowing us to stay here," Soldier 76 stated as he noticed the confusion in Sombra and Reaper's faces.
As the helicopter landed on an aircraft pad, the two Talon members were escorted off of the helicopter. The rest of Overwatch followed behind, all of them looking between each other. Soldier 76 and Ana walked beside one another as they looked toward Sombra and Reaper's backs, then towards each other, "I know you feel. It wasn't a mistake, Jack, but it was the only way we could reach them," Ana exclaimed to 76, able to sense the uncertainty on his face. "I didn't want to kill anyone, especially if she was trying to speak to us. For all we know, those two will never open up to us because of what we did," he said, a bit of anger in his voice.
"We'll give you the answers."
Quickly looking back up, Sombra was turned partially around, looking directly at 76 and Ana.
"Excuse me?" Ana questioned.
"We will give you the answers you seek. We will tell you about Talon. Under one condition."
Sombra looked towards Reaper, whom she could see was an emotional mess. He looked backed at her, and then towards the ground.
"You have to spare our lives and allow us to work for Overwatch."
At this point, everyone that was on the aircraft had stopped walking, looking at Sombra. They all looked back and forth at one another and then towards Soldier 76. 76, on the other hand, stood a bit in awe, not sure that he was registering what she had said. Noticing that he was at a loss for words, Ana looked from him to Sombra with a curious expression, "Why? Why do you want to be apart of Overwatch now?"
"We're only doing this for her. She knew we wouldn't stand a chance. She wanted to talk to you all and find a way to help you all, to give you the information you wished for about Talon. To take them down. She no longer wanted to be their slave. She wanted a normal life. Not as Widowmaker, but as Amélie." Sombra's normal playful expression was gone. Her playful attitude was gone. She felt the same Reaper had felt. Although Widowmaker was always cold and couldn't take a joke, that was her best friend. The only person that seemed to understand Sombra. She wanted to do as Widowmaker had wish and live on her legacy. She knew all these years that Widowmaker didn't want to be apart of Talon, but after every experiment those feelings would disappear, but they would appear every so often. Sombra and Reaper both could see that spark in her eyes.
Ana and Soldier 76 looked towards one another, and at the rest of the team. Some of the members had shrugged their shoulders, their answers obviously being to let them join. Although Overwatch was a pretty large team, they could always use other members. Sombra's hacking skills could be highly useful and Reaper's mercenary skills would be just as useful. 76 sighed and looked away from Ana then towards the two in front of him. Reaper was now staring towards his former teammates, the look of rage still plastered on his face, but he could contain it now. Although he never wanted to be apart of Overwatch again, he wanted to do this for her. Only her. He swore to himself that the only reason he would join is if Widowmaker joined with him.
Soldier 76 stepped forward a bit, and his masculine hands reached towards his mask, slowly unhooking it from its locks. Slowly peeling the piece of metal, he revealed his scarred face, his ice blue eyes burning into the two in front of him. A serious expression across his face, and he nodded,
"You're in."