Heavy boots thudded on the paved street as it gets torn apart by gunfire after said boots. The owner of said boots twists his torso, squeezing off a few of his own rounds in retaliation. The lone vigilante dives into a nearby alley way as a single shot grazes his calf and he hisses in pain. He continues running as more shots tear apart the street and walls.
Soldier 76 is not having a very great day as far as vigilantes working outside the law's days go. He was going after a 'small' Talon force. Turns out, by small the reports meant Reaper, Widowmaker and at least five high order Talon agents escorting a new toy. Getting the reports was easy, since Winston left them lying on his desk and Athena was distracted by Tracer. He prefers if his old team doesn't know who he is.
He ducks just as Reaper's guns come into view, firing off blasts into empty space. The vigilante rolls away before peeking out and squeezing off a few of his own fusion rounds.
The vigilante curses as a few pellets of buckshot strike his stomach, causing him to miss Reaper. He doubles over in pain, trying to hold it together after being winded. Luckily, his plate carrier stopped everything. Unluckily, as soon as he recovers, the man advances to him and punches him right in the visor. Soldier 76 reels backwards and tries to focus before Reaper sweeps his legs right out from underneath him, causing him to fall flat on his back.
Reaper lifts his boot and stomps the dented armour plate, causing 76's vision to blur and to cry out in pain muffled by his visor.
"We should test out the machine, Reaper, get him in quickly!" A voice says, somewhere above Soldier 76.
The pressure on his ruined armour plate lessens, but a clawed hand grabs at the vigilante's collar and drags him none too gently to the machine, whirring in eerie silence.
Soldier 76 struggles against Reaper's grip as Widowmaker walks up, looks into his visor and grins, "Well, we are finally getting rid of a gigantic thorn in our side."
Reaper laughs and punches Soldier 76's stomach again, causing the man to yell out and his grip to weaken. He manages to keep his hold on his fusion gun using sheer willpower.
Widowmaker nods to one of the Talon agents and she switches the machine on, distorting the air inside the gate's frame and ripping a hole into space. Soldier 76 gets a sense of dread and struggles more against Reaper as he drags him over to the machine, sucking anything that was light and not tied down. The vigilante struggles endlessly against the shadow trying to get free, trying everything to heed his instincts' warnings about Talon's toy and to get out of here.
Reaper looks at Soldier 76 struggling less and less as his breath grows shorter. The Talon agent laughs in amusement as 76 attempts to bring his fusion gun up to shoot, but Reaper releases his neck and throws him into the screen by his upper left arm. Soldier 76's back smacks the side of the gate of the machine as he gets pulled in. Reaper himself disappears into a cloud of black, satisfied with himself.
Wind howls past Soldier 76's ears as he falls through the night sky, just beginning to turn dawn. 76 furrows his brow, why is he falling? He wasn't airborne a second ago. He twists around under serious aching pain, and sees a lake rushing up to meet him with open arms.
Luckily when Soldier 76 arrived, was only ten metres above the lake, the bad news is that a fall from that height on to water would push all the air from a person's body. The vigilante plunges, then surfaces, coughing up water and struggling to see through a leak in his visor. He rolls onto his back and floats, slowly passing out.
The early morning sun shines off of Dipper and Mabel's auburn hair as they trek through the Oregon forest of their first official day back at Gravity Falls for the summer. The birds sing and the river rushes by.
Mabel stops and faces the direction of one of the lakes many rivers, "Hey, Dipper, you hear that?"
Dipper pauses climbing a tree and turns his ear to the direction of the river and furrows his brows at the noise. He jumps down and moves closer, the sound of the river split.
"It's too early for Multi-bear to be fishing and too quiet for any of the others," Dipper observes, moving a bush down from his vision to see the river.
"What is it Dip-dop?" Mabel whispers as she moves over to the bush to look.
Dipper quickly moves through the bush and stalks over to the river with Mabel close behind.
Mabel saw the body before Dipper did and quickly rushes to his side.
Dipper puts his hands to his face as he looks down at the man's bloodied blue leather jacket, a rather interesting gun sitting at the water's edge as Mabel pinpoints the source of the blood. She takes off the current sweater, a simple blue, black and red one and presses it against Soldier 76's left arm.
"Dipper, we need to get him back to the shack!" Mabel says, leaning all of her weight onto the spot.
Dipper kneels by and puts two fingers to 76's neck, a steady but weak pulse greats them, "He's alive, weak pulse, but alive. Where'd he come from?"
Mabel from her spot somehow manages to kick Dipper, "Can we worry about that after we save the guy?!"
Dipper recovers from the kick and retrieves his hat, "Right, right," he gets up at takes a look at the scene before him. He walks up to the gun and somewhat struggles to pick it up.
"Mabel, tie your sweater as tightly as you can around the wound, we're not tall enough to support his weight fully, so we'll need to drag him to the shack," Dipper says, while going for the soldier's right arm.
Mabel nods, and after tying her sweater around his bleeding left arm, she grabs it.
The twins lift the heavy soldier, eliciting a pained groan from the man.
Dipper lets out a strained breath, "Whew he's heavy, kinda glad we're the same height."
Mabel grins devilishly and Dipper glares at her, "Shut up!"
The twins begin to drag their new friend out of the bank and into the forest, going up a lower ledge to ease the work effort on them.
Dipper steps over a stick and the gun hits his leg, "Oof, oh I hope the safety is on on this thing."
Mabel looks over Soldier 76's head at Dipper, "So this happened on our first day here, the weirdness never ends!"
Dipper laughs, "No I don't suppose it does, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this guy says he fell out of the sky."
Mabel giggles, "Me neither!"
Soldier 76 groans and stirs, the Twins stopping to see if he'd wake. When he didn't they continued to drag him to the direction of the shack.
A couple of beeps sound and Wendy parks the golf cart next to them, "Sup guys, whoa, where'd you drag him out of?"
"The main river coming out of the lake," Mabel says, pointing her foot in the general direction.
Wendy looks at the full grown man being held up by two teenagers with a blood soaked sweater around his upper left arm.
She narrows her eyes before pointing to the attached flat-bed to the cart, "Well he won't last long if you drag him all the way back, put him on the bench seat."
The twins pull him as gently as they could onto the bed, Dipper heaving the fusion gun into the golf cart's small trunk as he sits down next to Mabel.
"He's as secure as a gnome on a sugar high, full speed ahead!" Mabel screams with too much enthusiasm.
Dipper scrunches his face in thought as the cart moves. He turns to Mabel, "Mabel, what the heck?"
Wendy hits a bump and winces, the twins turning their heads to their passenger who just moved a few centimetres to the left.
"He's OK, keep driving," Dipper says.
Wendy nods and speeds the cart up, the three conscious members seeing the roof of the shack in the distance.
Wendy expertly drifts into the dirt yard of the shack, Mabel launching off and inside before the cart stopped sliding.
"Soos! Gruncle Stan! Gruncle Ford! Melody! Abuelita!" Mabel screams from inside as Wendy and Dipper move to carefully slide 76 off the cart's bench seat.
Dipper and Wendy barely get Soldier 76 up the first step before the Gruncles take him from them to carry him inside quicker.
Ford spots the fusion gun and nods his head towards it, "Dipper, bring that inside."
Dipper nods, grabbing the gun and following the Gruncles down to the spare room that used to be Ford's.
"On the couch," Ford says simply, as they move him onto the sofa.
Ford removes the now very red sweater and looks at the wound, "Hmmmm, looks like some kind of sharp trauma, some kind of claw?"
Mabel hands over a towel and Ford presses it to the wound, moving over to check 76's armoured vest. Small dents dot the surface.
"Too dangerous to get this off now, I need him upright."
"I'll go get some water for our friend doods," Soos says as he walks off to the kitchen, Melody and Wendy following.
"We'll tend to him," Stan says as he brings in the first aid kit.
The twins assist wordlessly.