The Saviour
Chapter 3 - The Cyborg's Beginning
As the week went by, Genji and Angela had gotten closer and closer. Mercy had never had a patient like this before. Usually, Angela's patients would be in and out just like that, but not Genji. Genji was something different. A patient that would talk to Angela for hours even if it distracted her from work even though she actually enjoyed the distractions. He was cute, funny, not like most people who have attempted to go out with her in the past. Angela hadn't befriended someone for ages, not since Overwatch started.
Mercy walked into Genji's room bright and early. He was still heavily bandaged up but it didn't seem to bother him.
"Good morning, Angela!" Genji hid a smile beneath his bandages, looking at the figure he had become accustomed to seeing every morning.
'And she's still beautiful as ever...'
"Good morning, Genji. How did you sleep?" Angela rubbed the sleepiness from her eyes and walked to her desk and immediately began tapping away at her keyboard.
"Same as ever. It's a really comfy bed."
"Well, I'm very glad you like it. Else it would've been an uncomfortable week for you." She didn't take her eyes off of her laptop. In fact, they had suddenly widened.
"Oh, he's finished it!" Angela gasped in excitement and clapped to herself.
"Who's finished? What's finished?" Genji had a feeling that he already knew the answer.
"The suit! Your cyborg suit! I'm going over to Winston right now to check it out and then we'll be back very shortly." Looking around, Genji thought about what his life was about to become. His heart beated fast. He had even thought about what it was like back in Hanamura. He shook the thought from his head quickly as he was to accept this new suit.
Angela walked up to the lab where Winston had been working on the suit with her. She was so proud of it but had left it for a couple of days to tend to Genji more. Mercy saw something that he hadn't seen before on the suit. There were sword sheaths of different sizes and shurikens, the same colours of the suit. Her heart sunk suddenly. This was no ordinary robot suit. No. It wasn't designed just for Genji to move around again. It was designed to attack, too. Angela felt tears coming on as she rushed into the rooms and looked at the blueprints that had not been presented to her. The weapons Genji used in ninja training had been re-designed into new ones specifically for this suit. In the arm of the suit, it had a place to hold and reload shurikens into Genji's hands. His swords looked much more aggressive than before.
"Oh, no! No! This isn't what I wanted!" Angela let out a cry that Winston had obviously heard as he stood in the door way.
"Angela, please let me explain."
"Explain what? That you've turned my patient into a weapon? For Overwatch to use on missions?" Infuriated, she turned round and looked at him, tears in her eyes.
"You even kept it from me! When were you going to tell me this?"
"You must have left your desk a bit too early. I had sent the extra parts in a separate apology email." Winston was looking at the ground.
"You didn't do this alone. Who told you to do this?"
"Jack asked me to do this. The world could always use more heroes. Genji is an amazing ninja capable of so much. His training has made him incredibly fit and healthy and he could be a great addition to the team. I'd love to have him working beside us, especially to take down the Shimada Clan." Winston finished, looking satisfied as he normally did after a speech that he thought had gone well.
"Well... It would be great to uh... See him every day. But don't think you're off the hook, I have to speak with Jack about this, too." Mercy excused herself and returned to her patient who looked happy to see her as usual.
"Genji, your new suit is a bit... different to how I thought it was." Mercy started, looking her patient in his deep, amber eyes.
"How so?" Genji felt his inside turn as he awaited the answer.
"Well... The suit actually enhances your old fighting style of ninja moves, shurikens, and swords." Mercy hoped that Genji didn't mind with all her heart.
"That's great! This will be an upgrade rather than some old robotic suit." Genji tried to smile, his scars ached as he attempted.
"I'm glad you think so. I didn't want you to feel like you were a weapon." Mercy smiled and held Genji's hand while she stood over him.
"And here we have the new suit! Haha!" Winston had a great big grin as he presented it to Genji on top of a table on wheels.
'They've spent so long on this suit... I'm not going to give it up. This is my new life...'
"So Genji. Final decision. Do you want us to put you in this suit? If so, there is no going back." Angela looked at him, trying not to influence his decision. However, she had spent over a week working on the suit and hoped that it wouldn't go to waste.
"Yes, Dr. Ziegler. I want to have this. Thank you both so much for this. You can't have been any kinder to me." Genji was put to rest a final time as he smiled, awaiting this new life that he was about to be brought into.
Awake. As usual. Genji had woken up once again. It was always the same. Lying in the same position every day. He hadn't moved much since he left Hanamura. But something felt different. He sat up, sitting in a better position. Realisation flowed through him as he moved his arms and legs around.
"Oh my god! It works!" Genji shouted. He got up from the bed and walked around the move, as he savoured every moment of being able to move. Tears of joy flowing but instantly clearing as they left his cheeks.
"I can move and run and I feel so much better!" Genji couldn't keep his thoughts to himself, stepping out into the medical wing where Mercy had just walked into from the other side.
"Genji!" She shouted, dropping her note book and pen she ran and gave her patient a hug. Never in her life had she been so overwhelmed in her life. The patient that struggled for months, the man who kept her company every day no matter what his situation was finally standing on his own two feet again.
"I can move, Angela! It works so well, you're a miracle worker!" He hugged her tightly, worrying if it might cause her harm but he just wanted to stay like that forever. They finally released each other and Angela pressed her fingers into the back of his head where his helmet connects as a clicking sound emitted as steam puffed out in short bursts on either side of his helmet, the green light went out, and she then removed his mask. His face still covered in scars but still the same Genji. They looked at each other, both ecstatic. Mercy planted a delicate kiss on Genji's cheek and called for Winston who had entered the room almost too quickly.
"How does it feel, Genji? Is the suit alright? Does it fit properly?" Winston was ready to gather as much information as possible about this new experiment.
"I love it, Winston. I've never felt freer than today." He smiled as he could finally show it again.
"You can still eat but you won't need to use the toilet again. Nor will you have to sleep but there is a feature that allows you to sleep." Winston made sure that Genji knew how every detail of the suit worked.
"Now, Jack Morrison would like to have a word with you, if you don't mind." Genji nodded and made his way around the Switzerland headquarters. He saw a young woman wearing blue and black clothing. That seemed to be the common outfit around here.
'That must be Captain Amari.' He may have looked a little too long as she stopped sipping her coffee and waved at him. Blushing behind his mask, he waved back with his new robot suit and proudly walked over to Jack's office with the directions from Mercy.
"I'd like to discuss something very important with you, Genji Shimada." Jack started off as he flicked the screens on the left of him off to stop any distractions.
"Of course, Commander. Anything." Genji replied, hoping that he didn't say something that would make Jack think less of him.
"We're offering you a position, here at Overwatch. To be a hero and become part of the team. Your suit allows you to do everything your ninja training has taught you but better and now you can put it to good use.
"I'll take it. This is my new life now. I seek revenge on my family, too."
"That's what I was hoping for. The clan needs to be shut down for its horrible crimes. It's about time it died out." Jack informed him. Genji exited, leaving to find Angela. He walked over to where Ana and Angela were seated and watched them talk and laugh every few seconds.
"Angela I'm on the team now. I am one of you."
"Oh, it's great to have you, Genji. The last fresh face around here was Mei and she sadly isn't here right now." Captain Ana Amari said, standing up and offering her hand. Genji was wary to shake it, in case he put too much pressure on her hand and hurt her.
"Thank you, Captain Amari. We shall be seeing a lot more of each other now that I am well."
Later that night, Angela and Genji were up late talking.
"So. If you don't mind me asking, what happened between you and your brother?"
"It started many years ago. When I was a young boy. The clan elders pressured us into being the leader of the clan as our dad was going to resign and eventually die. Hanzo and I had ninja training and we could climb walls without hesitating, use swords and bows well. He took the family business very seriously and did everything that he was told to do. Me on the other hand, my dad used to let me do whatever I wanted to. I'd go play in the cherry blossom trees and play hide and seek with other kids in the area and occasionally Hanzo, too. We were great brothers but it all changed when we got older and our father finally died. The elders forced us into positions that we weren't quite ready for and since I had no interest at all they asked Hanzo to set me straight and he did, by nearly ending my life." Genji finished, looking at Angela feeling slightly embarrassed at the information that he had just released.
"Oh, Genji. I'm so sorry that it is like this between you and your brother. Maybe one day you two will meet again and he will apologise." Mercy held his hand out of habit and found herself still holding his, even if it made the moment slightly awkward.
"I hope so too, Angela." Genji had a slightly deeper voice due to the robotic suit he was now wearing.
"Hey, why don't you take your mask off? I prefer seeing you when we talk." Angela hoped that he wasn't ashamed of his face as his scars were still quite prominent. Genji attempted to do what Angela had done and attempted to press in the back of his head where the mask connects to remove it. Mercy giggled and did it for him as it released the mask and he took it off, placing it on the table next to him.
"How do I look?" Genji worried slightly at the response.
"As handsome as ever." Angela smiled and stroked his cheek and then got up to go to bed.
"Well, that's me done for the day." She said, gesturing to the clock that read '11:32 pm'.
"Oh, of course." Genji's cheeks became very red as he attempted to hide his face and grabbed his mask.
"Angela!" He called.
"Yes, Genji?"
"How do I uhh... put this back on?" He picked it up and tried slapping it against himself in a playful way.
"No, no Genji." Angela laughed and helped him put it back on.
"So... where do I sleep?" Genji asked.
"Well... I think Jack is either going to re-do an old room up and make it feel like home or he will have a new room built but I have a feeling it will be the first option."
"Tonight I think I'll rest here like I have done for a while now."
"Alright then, I'll see you tomorrow Genji." Mercy waved and returned to her room, putting on her pajamas and tucked herself in bed and sighed happily at her success with Winston today. She suddenly woke up with a start, having another flashback to her parents' deaths. Angela found herself softly crying. She thought that she was over it now, that it had been over 25 years since the incident happened.
"Angela, please may I come in?" That cute voice she had been hearing for the past week sounded from the other room.
"Uhm... Yes, Genji. If you'd like, what's up? Is your suit okay?" Mercy tried to hide the fact that she had been crying while making excuses. He walked in and looked at her, slightly worried.
"Why are you so upset, did I do something wrong?"
"No, Genji. I have something to tell you. It's kind of a secret I haven't told many, like you and your brother's incident." She patted her bed next to her as if telling him to sit down with her and he did so.
"When I was young, my mother and father were taken by the omnic crisis. They couldn't handle it anymore and one day they told me to hide in the basement so I did. They weren't there the next morning. I couldn't even find their bodies. I took an interest in science and how the body worked and everything to do with medicine and eventually became what I am today. I think I was influenced by what was happening and wanted to make a difference." She finished, looking at the bed. Genji pulled her close for a hug, she felt his metal plates warm up to her.
"Why are families so difficult?" Genji asked.
"Love is difficult." She had finally fallen asleep, extremely tired from the day before. Genji sat there and wondered what to do before he made up his mind and laid down with her and went into sleep mode.
