A.N: Hello everyone, here I am again! Okay so in the last chapter our heroes met the new recruits and got to training them. But the threat appears to be getting closer. What is it? Find out now! By the way, so there's no confusion, DVA and Mercy are mother and daughter in this, I know some people don't think they are but I do so yeah :) Also, I'd like to thank the people that have reviewed the story thus far. Thank you ^^ Anyways, on with the chapter!
Not far outside the city, there were flashes of green light. It managed to confuse some of the city people, but most of them just ignored it. However, it managed to grab the attention of a certain group of people.
At the headquarters of Talon, Reaper watched the flashes upon his monitor. This strange behavior both confused and intrigued him. But his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of someone struggling with someone in the background. He looked back to see Sombra playing a videogame and her character had just died.
"Man, this video game is garbage! I've played this final level over and over again for about a dozen times and I keep on dying!" She whined,
Reaper rolled his eyes under his mask and let out a sigh as he looked back to the monitor displaying the green flashes. "What is this strange behavior?" He asked, "I have never seen this kind of thing happen before…" Meanwhile Sombra was playing the level again until she remembered what her powers were. She used her hacking powers to hack into the game and in a split second she managed to find the codes needed to beat the level. A devious smile came upon her lips. "Haha, excelente." She chuckled to herself,
Reaper continued to struggle with the question of who was causing this disturbance. Then his mind instantly went to Overwatch. His worst enemy, how he hated them, they defeated him and his agents numerous times before, they turned his friends against him. He just wanted them to die. "Hmm...maybe it's them that's causing this odd behavior…" He said, but then his mind instantly shook the thought. "No, it couldn't be. But if it isn't them, then who's doing this?"
Sombra then beat the level as the monitor in front of her displayed flashing red letters that spelled "Winner". She turned in her beanbag chair to look at her master. "Reaper, mi amigo, I wouldn't worry too much about it. It can't be Overwatch, we haven't gotten anything from them in a while anyway. So I suggest we don't worry about it." She then stood up, "Man, beating this game has made me muy hambriento. How about I order us some pizza?" She asked, Reaper just rolled his eyes again, he didn't know what it could've been coming from. Sighing he pressed a red button.
Suddenly the door opened and in came Widowmaker. Her bluish purple skin and emotionless scowl could pierce through even the bravest and most strong-willed people.
"Reaper...You wanted to see me?" She said,
"Hello Amèlie…" Reaper said not turning to face her, Widowmaker then looked over to see Sombra.
The Hispanic woman just smiled at Widowmaker. "Hola Widowmaker." She said, Widowmaker didn't smile back, she just gave a nod and said, "Bonjour Sombra…"
Reaper then stood from his seat. "Widowmaker, I have called you here on account of some strange activity that we have detected outside of London. I want you to go and find out what it is. If it's a threat, shut it down."
Widowmaker nodded, "Oui monsieur." She then turned to leave, suddenly Sombra spoke up, "Hey wait a minute! Can I come?" She asked, Widowmaker looked at her odd. She preferred to work alone. She looked to Reaper waiting for what he had to say on this.
"Okay, Widowmaker you'll be taking Sombra." He replied, "Muy bien!" Sombra said happily, "I've been waiting for some action to happen!" She then playfully punched Widowmaker's arm and ran out of the room. "Vamos amiga!" She yelled, Widowmaker just rolled her eyes annoyed with Sombra's energetic nature and began to follow not too far behind behind her.
Back at Overwatch, the members and the new recruits were already halfway through day two of their training. The new recruits were making more progress but were still far from becoming their top agents.
Mercy was in the base lab experimenting with some different herbs and fluids to see if they will make something. Her current goal was to create the ultimate cure, a cure that would heal any injury or illness. She felt like she was getting close to a breakthrough. She poured a bit of a glowing orange liquid into a beaker full of green liquid. It made the fluids turn a light brown and also created a puff of smoke. The Swiss doctor coughed a bit waving it off but then instantly returned to her work. She grabbed another beaker filled with a yellow liquid and managed to get some into an eyedropper. She approached her mystery concoction with caution and with a shaking hand aimed the eyedropper over the beaker. "Easy...easy…" She told herself, she then squirted three drops into the beaker which resulted in the beaker suddenly exploding sending Mercy flying back onto her butt and the contents of the beaker splattered all over her goggles and lab coat. She lifted her messy goggles from her eyes and groaned at the mess she made.
"Ugh! Verdammt! What is that final element that I'm missing!? I have tried everything in my lab and nothing seems to work!" She complained to herself, she sighed as she picked herself up and began to clean up the mess. Hopefully she would find that last component tomorrow. As she was cleaning she managed to slip on a clean lab coat and goggles and tossed the stained ones into the bins of contaminated lab equipment that had to be cleaned. As she scrubbed the stained counter, the doors to the lab opened and in came DVA with a large bruise on her cheek.
"Hey mom." She said, Mercy turned at the sound of her daughter's voice, "Hey Hana-." She stopped abruptly at the sight of the huge bruise on her daughter's cheek. "Whoa, what happened sweetie?" She asked, "Eh, practicing with Chip was a struggle yet again. He's still having trouble getting used to his weaponry." She explained, Mercy smiled and gestured to the set of counters by the door and DVA sat down on the counter as Mercy dug through the cupboards looking for the tools she would need to fix her DVA's bruise.
"Chip didn't hit the target?" Mercy asked her as she continued her search, "No, he hit it, the problem is that he hit the target so hard that he made the training robot shatter into many pieces and one of those pieces accidentally hit me in the face." DVA explained, finally Mercy stuck her head out of the cupboards carrying disinfectant and bandages. She poured a bit of the disinfectant on a cloth and gently dabbed it on her daughter's cheek.
"Ow! Mom!" She whined, "What? It means it's working." Mercy replied with a smile, suddenly the doors opened again only this time it was Genji that entered.
"Doctor Ziegler." He spoke up, Mercy and looked to him, "Genji." Mercy said, a light blush spread across her face as she rubbed the back of her neck. "What-what brings you here?" She asked, "I am experiencing some trouble with my suit." She nodded, "O-Oh, Ja, of course." She placed the bandage on DVA's cheek. The gaming prodigy hopped down from the counter and passed Genji giving him an odd look. The cyborg then approached Mercy causing her blush to deepen slightly.
"Okay, what seems to be the trouble?" She asked, "Well, lately my suits been acting up, it will sometimes rattle after a fight, also my breathers are malfunctioning a little making it slightly harder to breathe. It may not be serious but I just wanted to make sure." He explained to her, Mercy nodded, "Okay uh..go lie down on the table and I'll check you out." She said, Genji did as he was told and laid down on the operating table in the center of the room and Mercy grabbed some of her more advanced medical tools.
She put on some special goggles and used a screwdriver looking tool to open the chest Genji's suit. She put the goggles over her eyes and began to examine him over.
As she looked at him they didn't say anything, after a few minutes the silence became to unsettling for the both of them, but neither of the knew what to really say. Until Genji finally spoke up.
"So uh, what's wrong with me, Doctor?" He asked, Mercy lifted her goggles and closed the chest of his suit. "Your suit is only settling a bit…You should be fine with that..." She then opened his mask to reveal Genji's messy dyed green hair and scarred face. He just shot her a smile as she blushed again. "Okay, now let's check your breathers…" She said nervously, she then got to work checking his breathers. It didn't take long for her to find the problem.
"Aha! Here's the problem!" She said smiling, "You're breathers are worn down. Here, I'll install new ones, it won't take long." Mercy instructed him, she then went to her box full of spare parts and looked for the spare breathers. While she did this Genji just stared up at the ceiling.
"Thank you, Doctor...Even after all these years I still have trouble being familiar with my uh..body." He told her laughing a bit nervously,
Mercy fetched the spare breathers from out of the box and walked back over to the operating table. She hesitated, "Genji, before I do this I want to warn you, when I take you breathers out you will temporarily be unable to breathe. I want you to brace yourself." The ninja cyborg didn't say anything and just gave her a nod. She then pulled out the old breathers while he lost his breath. Not waiting one second Mercy hastily pushed the new breathers into his suit near his face and he breathed in a huge gasp of air. Mercy then put his mask back on and the green light of the eyes on the mask lit up. Genji got up from the table and gave her a nod again. "Thank you Doctor Ziegler…" He said giving her a karate bow, Mercy smiled and blushed a little. "N-No problem, Genji...but...you can call me Angela…" She told him, Genji didn't reply for a minute, then he finally spoke again.
"Okay...Angela…" She didn't notice but as he said this he winked at her under his mask. Then without saying anything else, he left the room.
Winston was on the computer still looking the threat over when Ana entered with Pharah.
"Ana, Pharah…" Was all Winston said, "How well are the other training?" He asked, "They act as if it were only yesterday that they stopped fighting…" Ana said with a smile, "Yes, justice will most certainly rain from above once more." Pharah happily reported with her signature catchphrase, "Good. We must be ready." Winston replied,
Widowmaker and Sombra were now in the British countryside. Dark clouds were rolling in and there was a slightly strong breeze going.
"So uh, where exactly are we going?" Sombra asked Widowmaker as they walked down a long dirt path,
"We are going where the lights were coming from." Widowmaker replied, "And how do we know where they came from?" The Hispanic woman asked shrugging, "Reaper managed to track down the coordinates of the lights." Widowmaker replied,
Eventually they reached the destination only to find it was completely abandoned, both Talon members were confused. "Huh? There's nothing here." Sombra said, "Was it just nothing?" She asked, then something suddenly caught Widowmaker's eye. Not far from them there were footprints. She ran over to them and then noticed that there were more. She walked over to get a closer look at the others, they were everywhere. Then she saw something shiny laying in one of the footprints. She knelt down and picked up what it was that she found. It was a shiny gold medallion, it looked new and only slightly dirty and engraved on it was a sword and shield. The French assassin just stared at the strange object in wonder and Sombra walked over and knelt down next to her. "What is that?" She asked, for once, Widomaker was slightly taken aback. "I...don't know, Sombra…" She replied, suddenly they were startled by a loud boom that sounded off in the distance. They looked behind them for that was the direction in which the boom came from. It was near the city.
Downtown London was bustling with people running around bumping into one another trying to get where they needed to go. Some people were entering buildings while others were trying to make it to the double decker buses. Big Ben chimed five times to signify that it was now five O'clock.
Emily, Tracer's girlfriend, was in her and Tracer's flat enjoying a hot cup of tea while listening to some classical music. It was quiet without her energetic beau there.
The British redhead sighed enjoying the peace but was startled when she heard a loud crash outside. She ran out to the balcony to witness a horrible sight. Cars were being flipped over and tossed into windows of buildings and people who were screaming and running for cover were getting shot down with green lasers. But what scared her even more were the people who were causing all this. They wore blue and black suits with large dark grey helmets, as they caused all this chaos and destruction they seemed to show no remorse for their actions. She gasped as she ran back into the apartment. "What's going on!?" She asked herself aloud, "I wish Lena was here." Then she instantly thought of Tracer. "That's it! Lena! She and the others can help for sure! Not waiting another minute she grabbed the communicator that Tracer had given her in case she wanted to contact her and called her.
Back at the headquarters, everyone was sitting around. It was break time again.
"So then I said to the thug, 'Looks like you've gotten yourself in a sticky situation!'!" Tracer said finishing up her story with a joke, she then slapped her knee and began to laugh while everyone else didn't laugh. Suddenly her communicator went off. The ex pilot answered the call. "Hello?" She said,
"Lena!? It's Em!" Emily replied in a panic, Tracer was confused. Emily had never called her with the communicator before. And with the way she was talking it sounded like she was in trouble. She suddenly grew concerned as well. "Em? Why are you calling? Is something wrong? Are you okay?" She asked,
"Don't worry, Lena. I'm fine, but it's London! It's under attack!" Emily yelled,
"What!? What's going on!?" Tracer asked now horrified, "People are getting shot down and buildings are getting smashed into!" Emily told her, the British redhead then jumped back and screamed when something shot the glass door to their balcony and shattered it.
"Don't worry Em! We're coming!" Tracer assured her girlfriend, she then hung up and turned to everyone else who were staring at her wondering why Emily called her. "London's under attack." She said, "What!? Is it Talon!?" Winston asked her, "Don't know, but I have my suspicions…" Tracer replied,
"Everyone! We must go! Now!" Winston ordered, "What about us!?" Screech asked for herself and ther other new recruits. The gorilla looked to them. "I'm afraid you four must stay here...you are not strong enough yet…" "Yes sir." Dyno said obediently.
Downtown London was still under attack. Buildings were still getting wrecked and the people were still getting shot down. But the large army of unknown people causing the chaos stopped upon seeing the arrival of all of overwatch.
"Cheers Luv! The Cavalry's Here!" Tracer said cheerfully, then all of Overwatch split up and began to fight off the people terrorizing London.
Winston went on his rampage and knocked down the enemies coming at him while DVA shot enemies down with her mech.
Tracer was running from the people chasing her, it wasn't long until they had her cornered. But before they could get her, Tracer instantly used her blink powers to teleport. The men looked on with confusion until they heard a whistle. They looked to their left to see that she had teleported not so far away from them. "Over here, luvs!" She called out insulting them, they ran towards her only for her to teleport again. This time she was even farther away. She tauntingly waved and laughed which resulted in them now charging towards her faster than before ready to kill her and put an end to her insults. Once again she teleported just before they could reach her and teleported behind them in midair and shot them all down.
Hanzo had his bow and arrow at the ready. The men chasing him were closing in on him. They were about to kill him when Genji jumped in next to his brother.
"You held a party and didn't invite me? I'm hurt." He said teasingly, he then broke out samurai sword and began to slash through the bodies of their assailants as Hanzo began shooting with his bow and arrow.
"Genji…" Hanzo said surprised, he couldn't believe that his brother was helping him, after all that he had done to him, Genji still wanted to help him live.
Genji looked to his brother. "Looks like you finally chose a side after all, huh brother?" He said playfully, Hanzo could tell that his brother was smiling mischievous under his mask. The ex-assassin just smiled back and replied, "I guess I have...Let's fight this together...brother…" Genji nodded and they continued to fight.
After a while of fighting eventually Overwatch had defeated the people that threatened them. They managed to kill some while others ran off in fear. The whole team regrouped.
"Lena! Lena!" A voice yelled out, Tracer turned to see Emily running towards them. She tackled Tracer in a hug neither not wanting to let go of one another.
"Em!" Tracer said relieved, "Thank god you're alright…" Then with no shame they kissed in front of the others, but they didn't mind, it was nice to see two lovers reunited. As they broke apart a certain thought crossed Tracer's mind.
"Where are they!? Where's Talon!?" She yelled almost demandingly, then, as if on cue, the entire team of Talon showed up.
"Prepare to die!" Reaper yelled pulling his guns out, "We knew it was you!" Sombra accused them, Widowmaker lifted her sniper rifle and looked through the eyepiece.
"We didn't do all this! It was you!" Hanzo retaliated, in addition to his brother's rebuttal, Genji got out his shurikens ready to attack.
"Ha! Of course you would see all this damage and instantly blame it on us! Typical…" Reaper replied offended. Before anyone could say anything else, a bright yellow flare flew up high above their heads. Both groups looked to where the flare came from to see a tall figure standing atop one of the buildings. They wore a long hooded cloak just like Reaper's only theirs was black and blue matching the uniform of the army that attacked the city. On his chest was a silver medallion that had a sword and shield on it. Windowmaker gasped and pulled out the one she found, they were exactly identical.
"Cower before me and my army you fools!" The stranger yelled, it was obvious that it was a 'he', everyone just stared at him in shock.
"Wait, YOU were the one that caused all this!?" Soldier 76 said raising his voice,
"That's right! Today's attack was just the beginning! Tomorrow I will destroy Overwatch AND Talon! Mark my words!" Then in a flash of light, he vanished. Everyone was baffled by this.
"Who was that!?" Lucio asked, "Bloody hell! I've never seen him before, mate." Junkrat said to him,
Winston then looked to Talon who had the same reaction as they did. He approached them. What Winston did next shocked everyone. "...Come...we must get back to headquarters..." He said, then without argument everyone followed him back to Overwatch headquarters.
Well there's chapter 2! So the new threat has arrived, who are they? And what will happen back at headquarters? Find out in the next chapter! Bye! ;D
