Confused.
Scared.
That's all she could feel as she looked around the closed cobble street she stood in. One minute she was walking down the sunny sidewalk of the mall to get back to her car; the next moment she's here, in a dark cobble alley. She looks around at the tall, narrow, buildings that surround her. They seem vaguely familiar but she can't place where she knows this architecture from.
Seeing streetlights and hearing many voices down at the only open end of the alley, she slowly makes her way out, gripping the strap of her over-the-shoulder purse tight in both hands to steel herself.
As she steps out into the well-lit cobblestone plaza, her eyes grow wide at the sight of the crowd before her, making her freeze where she stands.
"R...robots?" She mutters, seeing several metal beings among the crowd of humans gathered and facing a podium. Her eyes grow all the wider when she sees someone step up to the podium. He's a tall robot in robes, a very clean gold and white color scheme. He looks…familiar.
"Mondatta!" The crowd cheers and something clicks in her head.
"Mondatta?" She breathes as she stares at the Omnic who should be dead. The one who is brother to a character in her video games. Live. And not twenty feet in front of her her. She sees movement from the crowd and watches in baffled awe as the character she knows as Tracer steps out from the crowd.
"Tracer...? Mondatta...? Mondatta!" She almost jumps at her sharp realization as he eyes snap to the soon to be dead Omnic as the body guard reacts to something on his comms.
"No. No no no. Don't take him away. He'll die!" She shouts but the crowd drowns out her shout and no one hears her. She's moving before she can think or question.
Shoving through the crowd, she makes it to the front easily but is blocked by one of the bodyguards.
"Mondatta!" She yells over the guard's shoulder but with everyone else yelling and chanting, her cries go unheard. Still, he turns to face the crowd and her eyes grow wide. She looks over her shoulder and up as two figures start falling through the air.
"No!" She shouts. Fueled by anger and desperation, she grabs the guard around the middle and lifts the huge man who doesn't have time to react past his shock before he's thrown to the side and onto another guard. With incredible speed and strength, she closes the distance between her and the Omnic.
Time seems to slow as she launches herself at Mondatta, tackling him and covering him at the same time. There's a crack of a rifle and gasps and shrieks from the crowd before the two of them hit the floor of the car.
She stares in horror as the lights in the Omnic's eyes flicker and go out for a moment before turning back on. As they do, time seems to resume and she smiles before grimacing as she suddenly feels a burning pain blossoming through the right side of her chest, just below her shoulder. There's screaming and chaos outside but she doesn't hear it as she stares down at the man below her.
"You okay?" She asks with a small smile. Slowly, he nods, as stunned as everyone else.
"You need to get out of here." She says seriously, getting off of him shakily and sliding towards the edge of the car where one arm is grabbed by one of the quicker guards, his grip tight on her injured side.
Being pulled out, both girl and guard pause when the Omnic beside her sits up.
"No. Leave her." He says as he reaches out and grabs her other hand to keep her there, his grip incredibly gentle. The woman seems surprised but the guard releases her without question.
Mondatta's grip remains gentle as he pulls her back inside the car, though it was more akin to coaxing her inside.
She slips back in, seated on the floor beside him as the doors close sharply, before the car peels away.
"You are injured." He says as he takes her by both elbows gently and sets her onto the seat before taking the one beside her.
"I'm fine." She says though the pain is hard to bare. She offers him a weak smile.
"Are you alright?" She asks, worried. He nods.
"Thanks to you." He says as his fingers gently pull the already blood soaked jacket away from the wound to look at the bullet hole. She places her hand on his softly.
"I'll be alright. I'm still breathing." She says gently.
She tackles the assailant to the ground and grabs his gun hand, twisting the gun so his finger gets caught in the trigger guard and bends backward. She's standing on his shoulder with her right leg, her left knee and most of her weight on his spine, pinning him down. He's crying out and struggling under her; struggling that abruptly stops when she pulls his arm back painfully, close to breaking bones.
"Get him out of here!" She calls to the injured guard who scrambles to his feet and ushers Mondatta into his car.
The pain of her injury and the light headedness of her blood loss, which was great the others seemed to realize, meant that she couldn't hold the man for very long.
She really shouldn't be conscious right now. Perhaps through sheer force of will, she walks beside the Omnic, barely able to see where she's going but her grip on her pilfered gun is tight. Spotting movement to her right, she moves in front of the monk and points her weapon at the man that approaches, gun raised.
Both fire just as a figure lands between them. A flash of lights and limbs too fast for her blurry eyesight to follow move around this new figure before the gun wielding man drops with a grunt, dead before impact.
The brunette is barely able to make out the silver and green man before her but manages to keep her shaking gun raised and pointed at the man. Slowly, he straightens from his crouched position, turning slowly to face her, the green light of a visor focused on her as she tenses, ready to fire.
Behind her, Mondatta places a gentle hand on her shoulder, an action that makes her jump though she refrains from firing at the new figure.
"He is a friend." He says gently as another, similar, voice calls out.
"Brother!" She whips around and points at this new target but a different set of large, cool, hands grab hers before she can take aim. A grip as gentle as Mondatta's lowers her hands. She looks up at the person that touched her, blinking away the blurriness momentarily to stare up at the green cyborg.
"Genji." She mutters, relief flooding through her body to the point her legs almost give out. She wills herself to continue standing, though anyone else would have passed out long before.
"I do not know you..." Genji sounds confused at the mention of his name but his attention is drawn back to the two Omnic now standing beside one another.
"I am glad you are safe, Mondatta." Zenyatta says before looking over at the girl beside Genji.
"This young one got injured protecting me, brother." Mondatta says, approaching the girl. "I am not certain how she is still standing." She's unable to help laughing weakly, drawing their attention.
"Me either." She mutters with as much playfulness as she can muster at that moment. She lowers her eyes to the floor as her vision goes black, though stubborn will keeps her conscious and standing.
"Can't see." She mutters quietly, jumping a little as her gun clatters to the ground when it slips, unnoticed, from her cold, numb, fingers. She loses time for what feels like a mere second but is suddenly pressed gently against a cool body. Her fading eyesight lands on a green visor and relief fills her, knowing she's safe. She lets her consciousness fade now that her job is done.