As the skies continued to darken, the invading Omnics looked up into the air to see two blue streaks coming toward them. Pharah led the way and reared up before some of the incoming Omnic infantry. She spread her wings while hovering and took aim before giving a defiant shout, "Justice rains from above!"

The launchers on her Raptora flight suit opened and let loose a barrage of missiles down on the encroaching sentry-bots. Explosions ripped up the beach and tore through the first rank of robots while Jason swooped in for a follow up attack using his Wind Strafer carbine to rain down a hail of energy bolts on the enemy. Several sentry droids fell to the strafing attack while many others turned their arm cannons skyward and began trying to shoot down their airborne opponents.

The two security officers wove through the ground fire and banked around to set up for another pass while some of the flying Omnic drones gave chase. Amid the gusting storm winds and the screaming sounds of the drones' engines, Pharah gestured to Zephyr and gave a hand signal. The two split off in different directions and drew away several drones each before moving to take them on.

Pharah glanced over her shoulder and fired her jets in the opposite direction to abruptly cut her speed before pulling a roll maneuver as the pursuing Omnic drones began to roar by her. She fired her hand held rocket launcher while rolling and took out several of them before changing direction again. Meanwhile, Zephyr took off into a steep climb and dodged the fire of the droids behind. As they began to lose speed from their vertical climb, Jason briefly cut his jet's power and pulled an aileron roll past the drones. With several of them in the crosshairs, he shot them down with his rifle along with a pair of smaller missile pod launchers which had been built into the suit's weapon systems.

The two comrades regrouped in midair and surveyed the situation with growing despair. They had put a dent in the invading force, but only two defenders were not going to be enough to stop the relentless advance of the killer robots. Jason glanced over while they hovered, "Things are not looking good Captain. At this rate, the Omnics are going to reach the airport and overrun the place."

Pharah nodded and studied the terrain, "We can't let them gain a beachhead to attack the city. We need to keep fighting."

Before the two Helix agents could carry out another attack on the robots, they stopped as they saw a cloud of small mechanized battle walkers jetting onto the scene from the direction of the city. The tops of them almost resembled small harrier jets with robotic legs and two arms mounted with fusion cannons on the end. Jason frowned, "I'm hoping that's the cavalry?"

Pharah blinked in surprise before giving a slow nod, "Looks like a MEKA unit. South Korean defense forces."

Leading the MEKA squadron was a unique pink colored mech with what looked be to be some corporate sponsorship logos emblazoned along the topsides. As the allied units soared over the Incheon Airport, Pharah and Jason received a comm. signal on their radio channel. It sounded like it was coming from the pink mecha and the voice sounded like that of a young woman with an Asian inflection, "Clear out noobs! MEKA leads the way!"

"Who is this? Can we offer any more assistance?" Pharah radioed back.

The female MEKA pilot in the pink aircraft replied quickly, "The name's Hana. Just stay out of the way and let us handle this."

On the general line, they heard Hana radio her squadmates, "All right team, let's shoot for a new high score and own these bots!"

Jason glanced to Pharah and shrugged before they formed up and fell in line with the allied mechas. "Well… she sounds charming."

The MEKA pilots chattered in Korean before fanning out in midair and making a direct attack on the Omnics. The mechas unloaded with their arm mounted fusion cannons and began to tear through the robots, while strafing over the beach and landing on some of the sea based platforms. The pink pilot who had identified herself as Hana swiftly blasted through the thick of the fighting trampling Omnic foot soldiers and unleashing blistering torrents of weapons fire.

Despite the return fire from the robots, their weapons deflected off the thick heavy armor of the MEKA units causing only minimal damage. Pharah and Jason swooped in at Hana's flanks helping to cover her with their own fire as they made a precision airstrike. Jason turned his head slightly while roaring by and gave a call, "Hey Pinky, watch your six. The Omnics aren't playing games here."

The pink mecha spun on its axis and gunned down several Omnics surrounding her in an impressive maneuver before taking off to join the two fliers. The female pilot radioed back with a smug smile, "Maybe you didn't know, but games are my thing and I play to win."

Pharah ignored the comment and focused on the largest of the Omnic platforms which floated in the shallow waters unloading more attack forces. "How about we play destroy that weapons platform over there? If we can destroy it, we just might be able to cripple their force."

"All right! I'm game," Hana replied abruptly steering her mecha toward the large aquatic pod ship, "Let's party up. Cover me rocket boy, I'm going in!"

Zephyr sputtered in surprise and roared after her to try and catch up. While Pharah worked on holding off more flying drones above, the Pink mecha activated what looked to be some sort of energy force field which projected out and deflected a lot of incoming fire from the Omnic platform. Jason stayed behind his new ally watching their attack vector before peeling off at the last minute and shooting rockets at the pod ship's gun emplacements. Several rockets hit while others only scored glancing blows from the off balance attack.

Zephyr swooped clear and made an abrupt braking motion to regain flight control while Hana's mecha landed on the Omnic platform with a heavy thud. She glanced toward her new comrade and chided him lightly over the comms, "Come on rocket boy, are you even trying?"

She turned her cannons downward and fired a concentrated stream of energy bolts to carve a hole though the top layers of the pod ship's hull. Once she did, she dropped a large explosive canister below the decks before firing her boosters and taking back off into the skies. As she gained more altitude, the explosives went off and erupted into a brilliant superheated fireball which ripped through the Omnic carrier platform. As a fiery cloud of smoke billowed upward and the platform sunk into the waters, the Omnics below suddenly began to lose focus and direction. From the cockpit of her craft, Hana laughed triumphantly, "Game over! I'm still Number One"

"We must have hit their command and control," Pharah remarked as she flew by and rejoined the two. As the other South Korean MEKA units finished mopping up the newly routed Omnic drones on the beach, Jason gave a thumbs up toward the pink mecha.

"Hey, nice moves out there girl. That was pretty impressive."

The pink mecha gave a small wave and changed course to jet away back to its home base, "Thanks. You guys weren't too bad either. Maybe with a little more skill and practice you could rank up and be a pro like me one day."

Jason blinked in surprise and turned to Pharah with an incredulous look, "I'm not sure whether to feel flattered or patronized right now."

Pharah simply laughed and directed her younger comrade to follow her as they and the other MEKA pilots regrouped and headed back for their home base amid the rainstorm which was now beginning to break out along the coastline.

After a short flight from the beaches, the two Helix security officers landed at a military airfield just outside of the city of Seoul and just beating the rain. Unlike other airbases with long runways, this installation seemed more fitted for accommodating and servicing the unique flying mecha units. The units touched down in groups and landed near hangers while service crews and base mechanics hurried out to attend to them.

Zephyr and Pharah touched down with the pink mecha and powered down their flight suits as the mecha taxied in for service. Jason folded his wings back into place and approached the parked mecha while Pharah came along and removed her menacing helmet as well. To their surprise, the rear hatch of the war machine opened and a young woman dismounted from the cockpit. She was an attractive girl of around twenty with a slim figure and long dark brown hair. Her flight suit consisted of a predominantly blue and white unitard and a headset with small pink antennae coming from the headphones.

She stopped to catch her breath and flip her hair back as she removed a pink mobile phone from the mech and posed to take a victorious selfie. The two Helix agents exchanged a curious look before Pharah cleared her throat, "Excuse me miss, I was wondering if you could help us. I am Captain Fareeha Amari and this is my associate Lt. Jason Archer. We're with Helix Security International and we were to assigned to try and make contact with the Korean military forces."

"Well you came to the right place," the girl replied shaking Pharah's hand, "And you're asking the right person. My name is Hana. Hana Song. Maybe you've heard of me?"

The two Helix agents exchanged a blank look and shrugged as she continued to prompt them, "I also go by the call-sign D. VA? Same as my gaming handle?"

Pharah raised an eyebrow as Hana pressed on in mild indignation, "You guys are familiar with E-Sports, aren't you? Video games? The Pro Gaming Circuit?"

"Err... no. Sorry," Jason admitted with an apologetic shrug.

"Seriously?" Hana huffed, "Are you guys living under a rock? Tch. I didn't think a bunch of flying commandos were going to be so boring and lame."

"What? Lame?" Jason bristled slightly, "After we just helped you and your MEKA pals turn back the Omnics out there? We don't have to take any lip from some little gremlin show-off either."

"Gremlin? Who are you calling a gremlin?" Hana exclaimed defensively before Pharah stepped in.

"All right now. Settle down everyone. Maybe we can get some answers over there."

She pointed as an older South Korean military officer came walking out to meet the MEKA pilots. He was a shorter man, smartly dressed with graying air and wise patrician features. As he approached, he gave a curious look to the two foreigners before breaking into a subdued smile, "You must be the two Helix Security Flyers who were coming to join us. I received word you would be arriving sometime soon... just not in the way I expected. Welcome to South Korea. I am Colonel Byung-joon Park."

Pharah and Jason gave polite nods in greeting and introduced themselves to the base commander. Colonel Park looked to the threatening skies and gestured for them to follow him back to his offices, "Come with me. We can speak in my office away from the rains and have some tea. Miss Song, would you care to join us?"

Hana shrugged and followed the three as they made their way off the busy air field and into a quieter complex within the base. It wasn't particularly large or luxurious but the two security officers didn't mind. They were used to relatively simple and functional accommodations. As they sat down in Colonel Park's office, the rain began to pour outside and an adjutant brought in a hot teakettle along with some cups. Amid the pitter patter of rain, they settled in and poured some tea to relax and warm up before Colonel Park sat back in his chair to address the visitors, "I see you two have already met Hana. She's quickly proven herself to be one of our best pilots."

Jason glanced over to where Hana was sitting and saw her idly playing a game on her smartphone. She gave a cherubic smile and went back to her phone as he nodded to Park, "Yes sir. Miss Song had given us quite a demonstration out there. If you don't mind me saying, I can't help but notice that you had a lot of human pilots out there in the mecha suits. I was under the impression that the South Korean MEKA forces were all drones."

Col. Park nodded, "Ah yes... in a way you are correct. They used to be drones but conditions have changed. Several years ago, a titanic Omnic threat began to rise from the East China Sea and it threatened Seoul. We named that monster Colossus. It was driven back under the waters and remained dormant and hidden for several years, until now. We had used drone weapons before but the Omnics adapted and our drone systems were compromised. That's when we switched over to using pilots."

Pharah nodded thoughtfully, "I saw many of the pilots looked a bit young... and didn't exactly give off a formal military bearing either."

She glanced to Hana and raised a polite hand, "No offense Miss Song."

"Oh none taken," Hana replied offhandedly while continuing to diddle on her phone's game apps. Col. Park grimaced, "About that... when the MEKA program transitioned over, we were short of manpower and resources so we decided to tap into one of our country's resources. We decided to recruit professional gamers into our ranks."

Pharah and Jason exchanged incredulous looks before Park continued, "Yes I know it sounds far fetched, but you would be surprised. Many of these candidates such as Miss Song here have demonstrated exceptional reflexes, adaptability, and drive which work well when coupled to the battle systems of the mecha. Because of their well... unique situation, many of these pilots are technically employed by the military, but not formally part of the military either."

"It can actually be kind of a nice thing," Hana added with a smile, "I still get plenty of free time and chances to give live shows to all my admiring fans online. If you two are lucky, maybe I'll give you some guest exposure on my next stream."

"Wait... you actually stream combat operations?" Jason asked in shock.

Pharah shook her head and turned back to Col. Park, "Colonel... Lt. Archer and I were sent here to assist your forces in repelling an Omnic threat. We've already beaten back a first wave today. What else can we expect?"

Park folded his hands, "For now, all we can do is play a waiting game. There have been sporadic Omnic attacks like this one, but never as large or concentrated either. The fact that this was more organized and aggressive is worrying."

Jason nodded, "All right... do we know where exactly these Omnic are coming from? Is something stirring them up? Is there some omnium factory underwater that we can't get to?

"Again, the intel on that is very vague. We haven't had a problem like this in quite a while and it will take time to gather some useful data. Until then, I'm requesting that you and Captain Amari remain nearby and ready to scramble at a moment's notice. I've been told you two are both exceptional officers and excellent flyers. If the initial reports I got about your battle earlier are true, then I have no doubt we made the right choice in asking for help from Helix."

The colonel turned his head and cleared his throat, "Hana, I'd like you to act as Ms. Amari and Mr. Archer's guide while they're here."

Hana gave a reluctant sigh and nodded as she put down her phone and tried paying more attention to the meeting, "Yeah sure. I guess I could do that."

Colonel Park nodded and poured himself some more tea before offering to refill everyone's cup, "Excellent. In that case, let's drink to a good new alliance and success against the next Omnic attack."

Meanwhile in the downtown city of Seoul, a woman stood alone on the rooftops of one of the taller buildings. She paced near a radio signal tower that had been built atop the building which housed a large local telecommunications company. The woman paused and watched the large dark front of storm clouds moving in closer to the city proper but didn't seem particularly bothered. She was in no rush and she had time. In the distance, she had seen some flashes and what was likely some signs of battle between the local Korean defense forces and the Omnic droids from the sea. Again, they woman didn't seem to pay it much mind and wore a look with more casual amusement than anything.

She pulled her long coat around her which was colored with a mixture of black leathers and pinkish purple hues to contrast. She ran a hand through her long dark hair on the half of her head that wasn't shaved and she pulled out a small tablet device. The hacker began to type in a few commands and easily accessed the power telecommunication signal tower. She skillfully typed in several more commands and ended the program causing her modified signal which she was broadcasting for now to be ended. That was enough for now. She had been successful and it looked like her signal to attract Omnics was working. She just had to modify her work more and prepare to catch some larger bait.

The tan skinned female hacker tucked away her small tablet in her coat and headed back inside the building with a casual whistle. The notorious female hacker known only as Sombra smiled in self satisfaction. It was only a matter of time before she would be able to get what she wanted. If that meant sacrificing Seoul or all of South Korea to do it, then that was only a small price to pay.