A young woman stood on top of a relative small building in Busan and watched the fire fight on the streets below. It wasn't her job to do so, but once that pink mech had showed up, she was curious how this mission would turn out.
"Sombra? Are you listening?", a dark voices said through her implanted voice-com.
"Of course, my little edgy prince of darkness.", she answered.
"Cut that crap!", the voice ordered, but Sombra was way to amused by his reaction.
"Oh, did I hit a nerve, Reaper?", she asked jokingly.
"Both of you, shut up. Focus on the mission!", a female voice interfered in their little fight. "Sombra, can you hack that mech?"
"Sorry, but I've to disappoint you, Widowmaker.", she answered. "Those mechs are designed not to be linked to any network. Therefore, I would have to get into close range to hack that thing."
"Get on the move then!", Reaper growled.
"Yeah… No. Fuck that. I'm not paid enough to get into firing range of a fucking mech.", she decided. "Actually, I wouldn't do that for any money in the world. This monster would shred me to pieces."
But that was only part of the reason, why she wouldn't help them in fighting this mech. Of course Sombra valued her life over everything, but she was also a secret admirer of the girl inside that mech. Tough, fearless, intelligent and quite the hotty. DVa was just like her and that wasn't something Sombra would say about many people.
But right now the Korean police, aided by DVa, and the Talon forces were caught in a stalemate in the middle of the street below her. Although Sombra knew, that the situation wasn't a stalemate at all. DVa had taken control over the police forces and had them take defensive positions. Her mech was positioned in the middle of the street attracting the attention. Small caliber firearms didn't do any damage to the mech and the heavy stuff was shot down by her defense matrix. While Talon tried to break through, DVa was just buying time for reinforcement to arrive.
"Sombra, do something! You are paid to assist us in this mission, so do your job!", Reaper requested with an angry voice. She assumed it to be an angry voice, but with Reaper you could never know. He always sounded like that.
"I already did my part in this mission. Hacking the car, messing up the route in the navigation, setting up the trap. It's not my fault, that you fucked this up.", she said. "But I give you the advice to retreat. I picked up some information about arriving reinforcements."
"You said the police reinforcements would need at least fifteen more minutes.", Widowmaker stated calmly.
"Yeah, but I took in some communications from the mech pilot.", Sombra said. "It seems, that somehow she is involved with that timeless friend of yours… what was her name? Tracer?"
Sombra didn't get an answer to this.
"Oh, did I hit just another nerve? I'm on a spree today!", she laughed.
"You talk too much", was Reaper's answer. "I'm going in. Widowmaker, cover me."
Sombra watched in horror, as Reaper dissolved into nothingness just to reappear behind DVa's defensive line. He immediately got into a killing spree, mowing down man after man. DVa quickly rushed in to aid the police officers, but while she was turning around, a precise shot into one of her mech's thrusters caused it to deviate from its course. The mech rammed itself into the next building.
Sombra watched the building collapsing onto the mech.
"Sombra, come down here. I need you to locate the target. The mech may have intel on him.", Reaper commanded her.
She brushed off her fear for DVa's life.
"Alright, I'm gonna do my job. But you guys hold the perimeter. Don't wanna be in that Tracer-Chica's pistol range.", she said, while dropping off her translocator on the rooftop. She then gripped a pipe on the side of the building and took a slide down. She camouflaged herself, while jumping over the fence and on the street. She didn't even try to dig herself through the rubble. Instead she tried to go into that building. While the front side was completely demolished, the back side seemed unharmed. A closed door demanded some form of keycard, which Sombra easily had at 'hand'.
"It's like they don't even try anymore.", Sombra muttered, as she slipped inside the building.
It was complicated to get to the mech, but in the end Sombra found a way. She always did. The mech itself was surprisingly undamaged. DVa on the other hand was knocked out. Sombra pulled her out and with care she placed her on the floor.
"I'll be right back", Sombra said to that cute little girl. Then she started hacking the mech.
As she suspected, the mech was mostly undamaged. Sombra hooked the voice-com of the mech up to her neural computer.
"Lieutenant Song, do you copy", a panicking voice asked repeatedly.
"Sorry guys, DVa is offline for now.", Sombra said. She addressed that to the voice-com, but suddenly realized, that the hole scenery was actually streamed. Sombra shut down the stream after checking whether she was caught on tape or not. But luckily the cameras were either broken or covered by debris. Even though she knew it was a bad idea, she put her own logo as the end screen of the stream. It was like saying 'Sombra was here!". Also she blocked out the voice of this commander, still asking about DVa.
The next part was a bit more complicated. Sombra read the logs of the mech's communication system to find the channel on which DVa had communicated with Tracer.
"Sombra, we are running out of time.", Reaper reminded her, but she ignored him. There were more important things to do now.
"Ah, there you are…", Sombra muttered.
She connected herself to Tracer without thinking twice about it.
"I'm on my way, love", a cute little voice answered.
"Yeah… about that.", Sombra said. "The thing is, our little Diva here doesn't need your help anymore."
"Who are you and what have you done to this girl?", Tracer asked aggressively.
"I didn't do anything. Actually, I just saved her life.", Sombra said in defense, while noticing the cracks in the ceiling, which grew bigger and bigger. "Okay, listen. I would normally love to chat more with you, but I'm short on time now. I'll bring DVa to safety at this location. Meet me there."
Sombra sent the coordinates of the rooftop to Tracer. After ending the call, she picked up DVa und translocated both of them back to the rooftop. She laid down DVa on the floor.
"I couldn't get enough info on the target. The building seems to be instable and could go down any…", she explained over voice-com, but the cracking and deafening sound of the building collapsing completely interrupted her. "You see what I meant."
Sombra walked to the ledge of the roof and looked down. Reaper was approaching her building.
"We will meet up at your position for evac.", Reaper decided.
"I don't think so.", Sombra replied. "I lured the reinforcement to this point as a distraction. Please take a look up here.
Reaper stopped and did as she had asked of him.
"Catch this!", she demanded, while throwing her translocator to him. "Get as far away as you can. Hide this in a safe spot in the vicinity."
"You are not in the position to give me orders, Sombra!", Reaper reminded her in his aggressive tone.
"Well, then you will give us the distraction, so that we can retreat unseen?", she asked with the most sarcastic voice she had to offer.
Reaper didn't respond, but she could see, that he was gathering Talon's commando troops and moved them away from the scene.
Several minutes later Tracer arrived at the rooftop.
"Don't move!", she ordered with her pistols pointed at Sombra. "Put your hands where I can see them."
While still sitting beside DVa, Sombra slowly raised her hands in the air.
"Calm down, chica.", she said. "I saved her life. Probably twice."
"Okay, so you say I can trust you?", Tracer asked, still pointing her pistols at Sombra.
"What? No!", Sombra said laughing. "I can't be trusted. I'm with your enemy today."
"You're a Talon agent?", Tracer asked confused. "Why are you helping her then?"
"I'm no agent of those Talon puppets!", Sombra said. "I was just paid to help. But they didn't pay me to kill her."
With her hands still in the air, she pointed with a finger to DVa. Tracer seemed to be unsure, how she should handle Sombra. Before she could decide what to do, DVa came back to her senses.
"Where am I?", she asked irritated. "And who are you?"
DVa was looking directly into Sombra's eyes, which caused Sombra to skip a heartbeat.
"Don't worry little girl.", Sombra said, while helping DVa to stand up. "You can call me Sombra."
DVa gasped and looked baffled. She gazed over Sombras body from head to toe.
"I know that name. You…", she said, but was interrupted by Sombra.
"I'm flustered that you know my name, but I've to shorten this conversation a little bit. I've things to do, but I'm happy I was able to help you."
She took a step forward and gave DVa a kiss on the cheek.
"If you ever need help again, just call me.", Sombra said and gave DVa, who was kind of confused about the situation, a card with a number written on it.
Before DVa could answer, Tracer stepped in.
"You're not going anywhere, love.", she said. "We'll need to have some questions answered."
"I'm sure of that.", Sombra chuckled. "But unfortunately I really have to go now. Adiós, chicas!"
And with that she translocated.
Into a dumpster in a shady alleyway.
"Hija de puta!", she yelled.