Everything had been going just fine, the mission had been going smoothly. It was a clear out mission in London, Talon had taken over a small area and causing problems. Overwatch decided to help the area. The mission had been going fine, that was before some Talon agents flanked them from behind, back up from the ones that they were currently fighting. Lúcio had noticed a little too late of the flank as he had been concentrating on keeping everyone healed up, even if they had two other healers with them. He had been in the back, behind Reinhardt. But after a blast right behind went off and filled the area with smoke, Lúcio couldn't see and headed right for cover. He ducked behind boxes and crates, waiting for an order to be called out. What he found instead was that the world went silent. Dead quiet, he couldn't even hear his own breathing or music that should have been playing. His heart leapt up to his throat when he realised what had happened, panic started to bubble up in an instant.
Tracer had been running around, trying to find the others. She ran along the road and almost missed the person that was hidden an alleyway, sitting on the hard ground. Holding his head and looking at the ground.
'Love?' Tracer asked zipping up to Lúcio, kneeling down next to him. When she touched his shoulder then he seemed to have jumped at the contact, looking at her in surprise. She noted that he must have been caught up in the surprise attack before, the blast having had gotten to his clothes and singed them a bit. She was worried for him, this wasn't his first fight, or the first time that he had been attacked and yet he seemed off. She noted that his headset was busted, most likely the reason as to why he hadn't spoken for a while or reported in to tell the others that he was fine. She helped him up, he wobbled a bit in unease as she contacted the others. They started to move, heading back to where the others where. Lúcio followed behind, gripping onto his amplifier, his knuckles tight as he tried to ignore the headache that had started up. He had been quick enough to wipe away the blood that had come out of his ear, luckily he had done that before Tracer had found him. He wasn't about to let himself be left on the side lines, he would push himself forward if he had to. It wasn't the first time in his life that he had done so.
Lúcio was quiet, far too quiet. Tracer wasn't the only one to notice this, the others had started to notice as well. made a joke about the enemy being noobs, nothing from Lúcio in response. Soldier had to pull Lúcio out of the way of the firing line when he didn't seem to hear Genji call out a warning. Those where only a few things, but being in the middle of a fight meant that they couldn't just stop to ask him what was wrong. He also didn't seem steady on his feet, or be able to move around as he normally did. Mercy did a quick look over, to see if there was something that had damaged his legs or self. Then she noticed it, that thin trail of blood that ran down from his visible ear. She quickly told the others, soon and Zenyatta were left with him. Pulling him out of the battle, jumped out of her mech once they were hidden away. The others were going to end the fight, fast. She watched as he leaned against the wall of a building, he went and click his fingers next to his ear. He did it again, his face starting to fall as he did so.
'Lúcio?' asked, but he didn't hear her and she kneeled down next to try to get his attention. She flinched when she saw him bend over and vomit, Zenyatta moving far quicker then could. She froze there as she heard that the others where almost finished, Lúcio was on his knees holding his head before she snapped back into reality and called for the others to hurry up.
' , the others can only work so fast. You must have patience,' Zenyatta said calmly, rubbing Lúcio's back to try to give him comfort.
'How can I have patience? He is hurt, he is deaf right now and sick, and none of us can do anything until Mercy comes here,' yelled out in anger, tears of frustration appeared in her eyes.
'Love, we are on the way,' Tracer's voice cut in and there where sounds of agreement.
'Start heading back for the pickup point, Reinhardt is on his way to help carry him back,' Soldier said the two of them nodded and flinched when Lúcio dry heaved, most of it being kept down. Zenyatta started to lift him back up on his feet slowly, he didn't like it and held onto his head. His amplifier had been left on the ground, picked it up before Zenyatta took it. In a flash of blue Tracer appeared before Reinhardt rounded the corner, Lúcio looked at them in a panic before Reinhardt kneeled down and took off his helmet. He smiled, trying to calm the younger man.
'Come here you, you're going to be ok,' he said and took Lúcio from Zenyatta, being careful not to move quickly. Tracer took the helmet as jumped back into her mech, they started to move out as Lúcio covered his eyes with his hands.
'I am sorry.' It was so quiet that the others almost didn't hear it, Tracer looked at him with a broken heart. Shifting the helmet into one arm to quickly take Lúcio's hand away from his face and held it, she smiled, even if she didn't want to. She wanted to hug him, she knew that she wasn't the only one. If didn't have to drive her mech then she would have joined in, Zenyatta joined Tracer by placing a hand on his arm. Giving it a light squeeze, as he didn't have a way to smile to try to make Lúcio feel better. It seemed to have helped as Lúcio gave a small forced smile back.
By the time that they got to the plane, Mercy already had an area set up inside. Ready to do what she can on the way back to the watchpoint, where she would be able to do even more. The others back at the watchpoint had already been told of what had happened, getting ready for when they touched down. Reinhardt carefully placed Lúcio down on a bed, the others got inside and Tracer took control to fly them back. parked her mech and as with Zenyatta she went to sit nearby for support. Mercy had gotten to work, she had to pull away his head set to find that the other had also been damaged. She pulled out a pen and pad, writing in, asking if he heard anything. He took a moment to look at the writing before taking the pad, not trusting himself to speak. He wrote that there was a light buzzing in his left ear. Mercy sighed and nodded, taking back the pad to ask him if he was in pain and if his vision was fine. She passed it back after for him to reply. He told her that he had a beating headache, that his vision blurred on occasion and that he felt sick. Mercy looked up from his writing to his face, a glare on her face appeared before she quickly wrote down asking why he didn't tell someone. She almost shoved it in his face in anger. Lúcio looked at it and simply wrote back that he didn't want to worry anyone, Mercy closed her eyes and looked at him with a sad look. Writing down into the pad that he should lay down and try to rest, he nodded. Instead of laying down on his back, however, he leaned up against the wall that he was next to.
'How is he looking?' Soldier asked, moving from where he sat to where Mercy was writing notes to remember the information that she got.
'That blast took out his hearing, I don't think that a quick clean is going to be enough,' Mercy said and looked over at Lúcio, and Zenyatta where helping him out of his armour. He was finished with them for a while, it didn't take much to attach his prosthetics on. He was tired, but the head ache wouldn't let him rest. In fact just moving around to change his legs caused problems for him, not only the headache, but also the nausea. Mercy quickly returned with painkillers, strong enough to last him the flight and another to easy off the sickness. Lúcio was thankful, he was about to say so before stopping. Finding it weird not being able to hear his voice himself, he resorted to the note pad and wrote it out carefully. Showing it to her with a smile, Mercy returned it a smile as well, glad to be able to help him for the moment. She then looked at Zenyatta and nodded at the fact that if Lúcio needed anything then he would have someone to help him.
Tracer was relieved of flying soon after as Soldier went to go take over for a short while. The rest of the trip was left in silence, no one spoke much. It seemed fitting and yet wrong at the same time, Lúcio noticed the mood and frowned. Leaning over to where his bag of things had been brought over by for him when he asked, he pulled out his portable speakers. He already had his music player and headset next to him, he had attempted to listen to some music earlier. Just hoping that his hearing would kick in, but he had found that it never happened and so he left it be. If he was left in silence, it didn't mean that the others had too as well, so he chose a song and let it play. He saw that the others perked up, recognising the song, one of Lúcio's own ones. They looked at him in confusion, he just smiled back. broke down into tears within a second, jumping forward to hug him. Crying into his chest as Tracer soon joined her, attaching herself onto his side. Lúcio's heart jumped to his throat, he was hoping to lift the mood not make them break down. As he returned the hugs, he felt Zenyatta place a hand on Lúcio's hand on 's back. He hide his head in between and Tracer, wanting to hide. More so when he felt two strong hands on his shoulders, Genji and Reinhardt. He couldn't help it, he started to cry and he didn't know how to stop. Especially when he felt them tighten their grips, he closed his eyes. He was just hoping that he was going to wake up, he felt shake against him. He felt that she was crying none stop onto chest, this wasn't a dream. This wasn't something that he would be able to shrug off and smile though it, he could try and he was going to. For the sake of the others, he could try.