Hey guys I'm sorry for the massive delay and want to thank you all for the support. This chapter hasn't been beta read so there are most likely mistakes, so I want to apologise in advance and hope you can all help me sort any mistakes. Thanks again and sorry again, but please enjoy.

Reconditioned chapter three

A shred of hope

A simple hole. A simple stone. The Overwatch logo adorned the top of it. Pilot, Agent, Friend. The search will always go on. It was just round the back of the Overwatch building where they had all gathered. All in black apart from Winston.

"This is ridiculous!"

"WINTSTON PLEASE… ve all know how you feel and ve don't believe it either, but everyone needs closure. ALL of us Winston, there isn't just you feeling this way…ve need to help each other."

Mercy sighed tearing up she hugged Winston. Her words true. No one believed Lena was gone, no one wanted to believe apart from Jack, but he never cared anymore. All Morison cared for was the mission and the Overwatch name there was no room for emotions. However even Jack turned up in black. Angela knew he liked Lena, she always got the job done and gave him a laugh in her cadet days from stealing food from beneath Ana's nose to when she still wasn't used to her ability and blinked right onto Angela during their first training practice. It was true that everyone, except jack, would continue to look for Lena, even though Mercy hoped that Jack would see sense and would help.

"She doesn't need this Winston…. she will be home soon so until then you need to take care of yourself."

Hana chirped in as Winston started to tear up.

"I…. its empty, n… no proof… she's still out there!"

Angela and Hana both held Winston as he yelled. The scientist would beat them in a fight normally, but he was weak from sleep and very emotional.

"You're right Winston. She will come home, but till zen ve need to get sleep and eat and help others."

"We have buried an empty box in what is effectively our back garden like some pet you can replace. LENA CAN'T BE REPLACED!"

"Ve aren't trying to replace her Winston. Ve are trying for some closure in zis matter."

Angela tried to convince Winston to relax but it was only after Ana's dart did he relax. The team dragged him inside and put him in his oversized bed. No one really talked after that, no one could. They had just buried an empty coffin, said goodbye to air. They all felt the same, all came to realise the same thing.

"Zis is so wrong,"

Angela finally broke the silence.

"If… When Lena comes home how are ve meant to explain a grave to her? ve needed to help Winston, I get zat but he is currently sedated and still very emotionally unstable."

"What are you getting at Doc?"

"What I'm getting at Jack is zis did nothing to help!"

Angela was very annoyed with jack, this was clear to everyone but still he would ask the obvious like he was trying to push her to the edge. The room was tense as she stood staring the soldier down. Suddenly there was a crash.

"Better see to your patient Dr Zieglar."

Angela huffed, as jack hid behind his visor no one could see his face.

"Zis isn't over jack. Only cowards and people with something to hide wear masks with their friends, and I'm not talking about your dam visor"

She stormed out the room followed closely by Hana.

"I thought you and Morrison were close Angela"

The doctor huffed sounding offended almost.

"Me and the soldier are not friends Hana. Not these days anyway."

Hana just nodded not wanting to bring up a clearly touchy subject. As they walked there was a series of crashes from Winston's direction. Hana and Angela picked up the pace through the corridors to Winston's room. The door was open only by a crack but enough to see the papers all over the floor. They both looked at each other with worry in their eyes before Hana opened the door. Winston's normally tidy room was a mess with messy drawings and blueprints on everyone's gear. It was clear he was trying to find something, Angela scanned the room and quickly realised that all the blueprints had been adapted. Winston was trying to improve as he always did wanting his friends to have the best.

"Winston? Buddy you going to come to dinner."

Hana stepped in carefully not standing on any of the drawings. Winston was hunched over something on his bed huffing as he worked.

"Winston please come you must eat!"

Angela walked in straight to Winston. She looked down and looked at Hana motioning her to walk over. Winston was sat with what was left of Lena's accelerator from the crash site. He had cleaned it up and repaired what was there. He was just looking at it, staring at the harness then at blue prints next to him.

"This is…. I'm missing something …HANG ON!"

His eyes grew large with excitement. He jumped up and smiled the first in months as he started to jump about the room both Angela and Hana looked at each other confused by his behaviour. The scientist dashed out the room pushing Angela and Hana out his way as he ran through the base.

"Winston … wait!"

They both ran trying to keep up with Winston. He easily out ran them and dashed into the lab crashing into the table as he did.

"Angela, what did I build for Tracer? …Angela?"

He looked around just as the two ladies stumbled into the room out of breath, but Winston smiled a large toothy grin.

"What did I build Tracer?"

"Winston are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Now please what did I build Lena?!"

"You built her Chronal accelerator. Winston please you are making no sense!"

He smiled swinging up to his tire then to shelf of small dull white boxes, all of them old and torn in places. Winston picked one box up that bulged a little more than the others. The words 'Cadet Oxton' was written on the box in the scientist's messy writing. He swung back down, eyes large with joy at the box as he sat it down carefully.

"In here is the blue prints for her accelerator as well as a few other pieces. Lena's Chronal Accelerator …..and anchor…"

He paused hoping that one of them would catch on.

"Winston please you need to start making,"
Angela stopped her words slur into silence as the cogs clicked in her head.
"Anchor? … ANCHOR! Winston, you don't mean?"

Winston's smile grew, for the first time since the crash he was looking like himself. He yelled in triumph and swung around a nearby gas pole. Angela joined in laughing and smiling pulling Hana into a hug. Hana on the other hand was still very much clueless to what the other two were happy about.

"Does someone want to explain the situation to me?"

finally piped up after moments of confusion.

"Why isn't it obvious Hana?"

Asked Winston in his gruff voice as he pushed his glasses back up his face.

"Oh of course it's so obvious the genetically enhanced super ape and the golden prodigy of science that got her doctors licence at only 15 could figure it out, as well as the 19-year-old gamer. Seriously?"

Hana's words were so full of sarcasm Winston had a hard time deciding if she had realised the situation or if she was being sarcastic.

"Well I'm glad we are all on the same page."

Winston said with a nod to Hana. Angela rolled her eyes and gave Winston a jab to the arm.

"Winston,"

She laughed.

"She is being sarcastic, she doesn't understand."

Hana had never face palmed so hard in her gaming or agent career and she had dealt with some serious noobs in various games messing up her quests.

"Ohhh, whoops sorry my mistake."

He said with a chuckle.

"Winston as much as I enjoy seeing you smile and laugh again maybe ve should explain to Hana what you discovered. Hm?"

"Oh yes of course. You see Hana Lena well to put it bluntly. She's still out there. She isn't in the slip stream and I can safely assume she isn't dead she's very much alive and out there."

Hana beamed with delight that soon faded.

"Wait, how do you know this?"

"well simply Hana she's still anchored to zis plane of existence."

"Exactly Angela,"

Winston smiled then frowned.

"I can't believe I never thought of this before I could have saved so much time …. And resources as jack would put it."

"Screw Jack this is GG guys. But … how do you know she's still in our existence and time?"

Winston dashed to his board and began to draw to illustrate to Hana.

"Okay so when I built the Chronal Accelerator I built it into a harness for her to wear. At first it was just a form of anchor to keep her from slipping back into the slip stream. This anchor I made was a simple harness that sat on her back. When we came to first tests with just the anchor she was fine outside the chamber she was solid human again, but she moved slow like her time was running slower than our own, this of course was due to her Chronal disassociation. We needed a solution hence the accelerator that attached to the front of the harness which also …gave…her …the….recall"

Winston trailed off his face of joy from the discovery slowly sank to fear. He looked between Angela and Hana.

"Talon …TALON HAVE LENA!"

He ran to his computer pulling up blue prints of the accelerator and something else. The calling card that was left behind several years ago. How could Winston of not noticed this an intruder in the system.

"NO!"

He roared breathing heavy. Angela looked at the screen in horror as the trio were bathed in the pink glow of the skull.

"S…. s…Sombra…. Winston ….v…ven was this left?"

"Two years ago, apparently …. I….t…. this … they have planned this … studied her and her equipment …. This was no accident they wanted Lena."

The screen flashed white before the purple skull appeared, pulsing and rotating. Letters appeared one by one.

C.L.E.V.E.R A.P.E B.U.T. T.O.O S.L.O.W

Just as Winston started to type back his computer shut down.