The briefing room was dark, the only source of light was from the light up monitors across the south wall. Several officers of the Rapid Response Force Anti Terror Unit had been gathered by Colonel Aron Augustyna the head of the unit. He is a well-spoken man in his late forties. A man who was born, raised and lived the military life. After serving in NATO for several years, a rogue omnic shot him in the gut leaving the man on the brink of death until ironically an omnic medic saved the Colonel's life. After the attack, he was removed from active duty and place as the head of the Rapid Response Force Anti Terror Unit. "Good morning everyone, now that we are all here we can begin this special briefing on the current situation." The monitor began to play footage of the attack on the Overwatch museum in Numbani. "Talon made another move...but now Overwatch is illegally operating again."
The blonde polish explosive expert of the RRF spoke up, "Sir...is that not a good thing? I mean Overwatch is what turned the battle during the Omnic Crisis."
"Major Kopec it is good but they are breaking the law, the UN shut them down for a reason. All members that answer this Recall will be placed on a wanted list if you see them take them down hard and bring them in." The man adjusted his beret before sitting down. "I don't take pleasure in any of this but we all know about the Petras Act, the law must be upheld. Olva, Yale, and Bloomberg you three will be investigating a Talon lead in Warsaw."
The Colonel began to hand out other assignments, the room began to empty out until only two officers remained. "Kopec, MacTavish the last one is all you. I want you two on the Volskaya Industries case."
The young Captain's had a confused expression on his face as he crossed his arms, "The Russians agreed to our help?"
"No, but due to Talon's involvement we are being considered special counsel to assist their investigators," Aron stated.
Cael scuffed leaning back in his chair, "So they are just going to take our intel and then make a move against Talon." the young Scotsmen laughed. "Fine, I say we just give it to them so we can watch them fall on their faces."
Claudia fiddled with her goggles she would rather be in her lab right now or being assigned a mission that would matter, "Are you sure sending the two of use to...for lack of a better word help the Russians is the best use? If they are going to just get intel and then boot us to the side we should be on a real case."
Aron rubbed his temple, "Fine...I will go to Russia, you two are on the Numbani case. If you see an active Overwatch agent take them down...I mean it, we can't let them take the law into their own hands." Turning back he pressed a button and it brought up the files on Lena Oxton and Winston. "As of now these two are your major target, Lena Oxton better know as Tracer and the one who sent out the Recall, Winston. From what we can gather these two are the only active members, find them and arrest them."
The two nodded as the left the room, "Cael I will meet you at the hovercar I need to grab my equipment in my lab." Claudia smiled and gave a soft smile, turning she walked down the hallway. After walking down four flights of stairs she was in the basement and at the door of her lab. Swiping her hand over her biometric scanner the doors opened. She looked confused at the state of her lab the place looked like it had been raided, the doors shut behind her as she began to look over her main table with her various explosives and prototypes. "Kto to zrobił, do diabła!?"
"Adorable."
Claudia started to turn around but she felt the barrel of a gun press against the back of her skull. The blonde was pissed, someone defiled her lab and now had gotten the jump on her. "Who are you?"
"Chica you already forgot about me?" the Hispanic accent was thick and the voice was one she remembered.
"Sombra..." Claudia whispered.
"Ha sido un largo tiempo," Sombra spoke a smirk on her face. "Now let's trade, you give me all your intel on Overwatch and I don't leak out your past."
Claudia was silent not about to give in she moved a finger and one of her bombs leaped up from the table but it grabbed on to her, confused she was tasered by her own creation as she fell to her knees.
"Bad choice my old amiga," Sombra whispered. "You should have known I hacked your little toys, but now I need to keep you out of the way while I finish fishing the information myself." She still had her smirk it never leaving as she kneed Claudia in the back forcing her fully on the ground before she zapped her once more.
Cael was never patient but Claudia was never one to keep him waiting, he tapped his fingers on the steering wheel of the military hovercar. He exhaled annoyed as he turned on the radio. "...with the recent attack on the Overwatch Museum in Numbani the world right now needs some cool jams, with that we hope the people and omnic of Numbani can rest easy knowing that it is over now. So let's spin up the joy with some sweet jams by Lúcio Correia dos Santos' hit album Synaesthesia Auditiva, we start this with Quebrando a Barreira do Som or in English Drop the Beat."
After listening to the song Cael positioned the hovercar to land it before shutting it off, he got out in a huff as he slammed the car door, "What the hell Claudia!" he yelled to himself. Looking over he noticed two cadets saw the outburst he simply pointed at them. "Get..." He spoke in a low angry tone. The Captain had a reputation among the Cadets and newer members who didn't know him of being a hot head who you don't want to be around when he is enraged. The two Cadets were quick to run off as Cael reentered the Headquarters of the RFF and made his way down to the basement. Once he stepped off the stairs he notices the Colonel and various security personnel around the lab. "Colonel, what's going on?"
Aron looked at his face couldn't hide the fact that he was upset. "Captain MacTavish...you will be heading to Numbani by yourself."
"What? Why?! What happened?!" Cael went from angry to worry.
Aron gently placed his arm around Cael and walked him away from the scene, "Someone broke into Claudia's lab, the place was raided. Intel, tech, and Claudia are all missing."
"Sir you need to put me on this! Claudia is my partner if someone has her..." he began to argue but was cut off by his CO.
"Captain you have your orders, I will personally lead this investigation and will not stop until I find the Major. You forget MacTavish, I recruited Kopec into the RRF and this break-in is an embarrassment." Aron stated.
Claudia slowly regained consciousness her head was pounding and her vision was foggy as she reached up and gently rubbed her head. Her hands were cuffed together, she was strapped into a seat on some kind of aircraft. Sombra walked passed her, "Welcome back Claudia."
Claudia pressed the release to the belt holding her in but it didn't release her. "What the hell is going on?!"
Sombra smiled, "Well I had two objectives at your pathetic excuse of a secured base. Took me three minutes to crack the security system." She laughed as she flaunted her skills. "I got your current intel on Talon and I got you." She booped Claudia on the nose. "We will be working together again Tick-Tock."
Claudia glared and pulled at the straps causing Sombra to laugh even more. "Keep struggling it will give me some laughs while we fly to your new labs." She turned towards the cockpit, "Make sure you let Reaper know we got his explosive expert like he wanted."
"Yes, Ma'am."
Cael entered the airport he was outraged that he had to got on this mission after hearing the news of his partner being kidnapped. Luckily for him, most the people left him alone, in his hand was his secured weapon case with this M2028 inside he walked up to the security checkpoint and produced his RRF badge. Security let him on through as he bored the jump jet for Numbani, he had his weapon case stored in a special location on the plane just in case something would happen.
Cael took his seat next to an older man with a bald head, he was dressed up as he smiled at the young man. "I noticed your badge young man it's always nice to see the RRF going around and putting a stop to terrorism."
Cael smiled he could tell from the man's accent that he was from America, "Thanks didn't think anyone saw it, well if you run into trouble of any kind just ask for Captain Cael MacTavish."
"Of course if you ever find yourself hurt just asked for me, Dr. Ryan Spencer." The bald man smiled handing Cael a business card. "I take it you are heading to Numbani as well. I will be the area for awhile so just look me up should you get into trouble.
Aron sat alone in his chair, his office closed and the lights off. A glass of whiskey with a half-empty bottom next to it on his desk, a small monitor was the only light source in the room now. It began to transmit as a voice spoke softly to Aron. "Mr. Augustyna I believe our deal has been reached." The voice spoke.
Aron slammed his hand down on the desk near the receiver so it was audible to the man on the other end. "You got what you want Vialli...why take my agent!"
The Italian man was quiet at first, "What are you talking about? My agent's only goal was the intel...dammit Sombra..." The comlink was cut leaving Aron to sit in the dark as he down another glass of his whiskey.
The room was slowly coming in as Warren Winters sat up taking in his surroundings he could make out most things in the room, door and small bookcase to the left of his bed, a barred window to his right, and a picture of some women in doctors scrubs in front of him practically staring into him. He reached out with his right hand but that only reached a few inches now noticing a handcuff locking him to the metal frame of the bed. "...great," he mumbled under his bed. Swing his legs out from under the blanket he was about to stand up when a click caught his attention, a lock opened as the door pushed open walking in was a female, in fact, it was the one from the picture. Behind her was an Omnic the one Omnic Warren couldn't hate.
"You were correct Beta it seems Subject Thirteen is already awake and about." the women spoke as if Warren was not even in the room with them.
"Madam Director should we figure out if his memory survived before you begin the tests?" Beta asked as he held up a small datapad.
Upon hearing this Warren looked at himself his armor and equipment were gone, he was left in what looked like a prisoner jumpsuit and a metal brace around his left ankle with the roman numeral for thirteen. One thing he picked up on was Beta talking about his memories, "Where am I?...Who are you?!"
"Beta I don't care we need better results now, I don't care if his training in his record before it became classified he will be fine. Now get him ready." the women ordered as he closed the door behind her.
"Warren...do you remember me?" Beta asked as he leaned in closed, Warren poked the Omnic and shrugged, "Dammit...I should have been faster."
"Let's say I do Beta, why would it matter?" Warren asked as the Omnic unlocked the cuff.
"Then I could speak to one of the few human friends I had, despite the fact he had been labeled as K.I.A since just before Overwatch collapsed." The Omnic stated the cuff was removed from Warren's wrist.
"So what is this place?" The human asked as he rubbed his wrist and walked towards the door.
"Someone has been taking people of military backgrounds and is using them to form up a squad of some kind...and they don't take no for an answer." Beta answered as the door opened to his touch.
Beta lead Warren through the various hallways, guard stations, and other cells, unlike him the people in these cells all looked as if they had gone off the deep end. "Beta what the hell is this?!"
"Their cover i.d. so don't worry about that right now you have to worry about survival." He stopped at a large set of heavy military blast doors, and again to his touch they slowly opened. "I know you will live and then we can work on getting you out of here." Opening up a containment unit he hand Warren his custom pistol and stun knife. "You will find ammo in the box, just don't fight them...on second thought when you are done in their resist them. It will help."
Beta didn't give Warren a chance to answer as the Omnic pushed the man inside and the blast doors sealed behind him, looking ahead he saw one large African man leaning against the wall, his left hand below the elbow was covered by a large gauntlet. It took Warren a but he knew who this was, the second Doomfist...the Successor Akande Ogundimu. The Doomfist who was defeated by Winston, the two men locked eyes. "You are Thirteen?...What a waste, I should just kill you myself and save our enemies the time."
Warren gripped his pistol tightly now, "Try it Akande...and I will beat you fast then when Winston did."
Akande's was seeing red as he gripped the American by the throat and held him in the air, "Subjects One and Thirteen enough or you will both be terminated!" the female voice from this morning ordered through an intercom system. "Now get ready or don't I personally don't care if you both die it will prove that the Doomfist name is a joke and that Blackwatch training was worthless...yeah that's right we know both of you and your pasts."
Akande's released Warren but the glare between the two of them remained Warren given three clips to fill with bullets as he tucked away from the other two and loaded the third. "Good, now that you two are done you can face your enemy. A functioning Bastion Unit...What is that too tough for two people of your standing?" the women taunted. "Enough prep open the door."
As the door across from them slowly opened the bullets from Bastion unit were already being fired off at the two human targets, Akande punched his hand through the large metal table. Even thou the gauntlet his captors made was strong it still wasn't as good as his, lifting up his arm he used the table for cover as Warren slide in next to him. "Doomfist...can you get me in close?"
Akande laughed at the smaller man's request, "If it means saving me the trouble of ripping you apart I will throw you there if I have too."
"Just start walking closer we have about two seconds between this things reloads to make this work!" Warren snarled as the large African stood uplifting the table pushing it closer towards the omnic, Warren began to count as he pressed his back to the table. "When I say boost me up and out."
Akande simply nodded as part of the table broke away from the damage of the Bastion, then there was a 'click'. "Now!" Warren ordered as he got up and ran towards Akande. Pulling his gauntlet covered arm from the wreck of the table, Warren leaps on it as Akande fires off a small pulse launching Warren up and into the air. His pistol in hand he unloaded the full clip into the arm that was reloading the main cannon of the Omnic, as he landed he quickly reloaded and fired again into the same arm disabling it. Swiftly Akande leap over the remains of the table pulling back with his gauntlet covered fist and punched through the Bastion unit destroying it's main body as the light on its head slowly faded. Warren aimed his pistol at the Omnic's head.
'What would the others say if they...if they knew I was alive...some would praise my actions, but people like Mel and Lena...they would hate me.' Warren for the first time in a long time thought about what he was doing instead of just doing what he was told. Suddenly Akande placed his large boot on the remains of the Omnic he pulled his hand free and then began to punch it's head over and over again.
The women was all smiles from the observation room as she activated the intercom, "That was great, now hands up and surrender your weapons." she ordered as three men walked out each of them holding a cattle rod based weapons designed to stun them.
Akande strangely did as he was told as the gauntlet was removed and he was cuffed, Warren did the same as Beta walked out and gripped the gun and took the knife back before he had his hands secured.
"Today was a great day for both subjects One and Thirteen take them back to their cells and get them ready for mental reprogramming."
"What?!" The former Doomfist shouted as he began to fight against the guards.
Beta was quick to get Warren out of the arena not wanting his former friend to get caught in the fight, "We may need to step up the escape to tonight."
