AN: Heyo what's up! Vic - I mean Crimson here! The last full five-day week of high school just came and went for me. It's the end of an era for me! Yet soon the beginning of a new! Soon enough I'll be off to college, and when that happens I'm not sure how many opportunities I'll have to write this stuff. A sad thought, I know, but I have high hopes that the offset will be a drastic increase to my near nonexistent social life. Oh well, Go Pirates!
And Now Onto Reviewing Your Reviews:
Raimon - I have nothing against harem stories, in fact I love them! But that does not make them any easier to write. The stories that I love even more though, are the ones that actually develop a romance, instead of just jumping right ahead from met a few days ago to fucking your soulmate (Quite literally, in some cases).
Ahemaru 'Ahegao' Henriku - Lena Oxton, a.k.a. Tracer, has yet to suffer the accident that gave her her powers. Despite this, she is still an Overwatch pilot. Firstly: Anti-aircraft weaponry in Krasnoyarsk prevented any sort of Overwatch air forces from assaulting the island. Secondly: She has a duty as a pilot for Overwatch, meaning that she won't always be seen as Strike Team Alpha's chauffeur. Though I will agree that she's Overwatch's first booty goddess... that ass. However, she is not the only sexy ass in the Overwatch cast.
Zack - Hold your bets! All bets on the pairing are not over with until they're over with!
Darkmagicdragon - Again, no harem. As for the comparisons, the Hammer Drones are artificial intelligence. Omnics, however, they are a different story. The capability of flaw that robots don't have... the very thing that humans do have, are now one in common.
KYUUBI OF DEATH - The pairing is a secret. Though lemons between Naruto and the Overwatch gals and thensome is up for grabs.
NeoNazo356 - Who did Naruto piss off this time? I think a better question would be who he hasn't already. The answer to that one is Lena.
MadmansDeath - Project Vogran is Project Vogran. Time marches on, and so does Project Vogran...
Guest - No. Who said anything about changing how Ana and Pharah are related? I would like to remind you that this is set before the Second Omnic Crisis.
fired5362 - Hold on one minute! You mean to tell me there's a mode on the internet that doesn't have the word 'rage' in it?
Now on with the story! Enjoy!
Chapter Start
-Overwatch Rising-
"Dear Director,
Due to your busy schedule, we have begun interviewing the members of your staff that we have found. I'm certain you will let us know if this bothers you. Our debriefings keep coming back to a single subject at Research Outpost 17-B...
Can you explain to us what this... Creation of Adam machine is, and what exactly your intent is with it?"
"Naruto!" Ana called out, causing the redhead to pull out his earbuds, place the device beside him and turn to the woman.
Several weeks had passed since the 'Battle of Krasnoyarsk', as it had been called by the media. In the final few moments of the battle, the Alpha Strike Team - Naruto included - had traded their roles as soldiers for actors...
He never felt more violated in his life when the makeup crew basically had their way with him. What little peach fuzz he had growing on his face was singed off by lasers, and anything they felt wasn't 'camera-worthy' was singed off too.
Thankfully the actual filming process was a lot less painful and a whole lot shorter, because, in the film crews own words, Naruto was 'born for the camera'...
Off camera, the rest of the Alpha Strike Team would groan as the crew stroked the redhead's ego.
And after all of that debacle in Krasnoyarsk, they had begun their campaign to take back areas in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It was easier said than done, but now he and the rest of Alpha Strike Team had a bit of a break from all the action.
"What's up?" Naruto asked, tilting his head in confusion slightly.
"Command wants to see you... now." she replied, causing Naruto to groan a little.
"For the last time, I swear it wasn't me who did it!"
"It's not about that this time... I think."
"You know it wasn't me, right?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, sure, sure..."
"You don't believe me?!"
"Well... I... Just go to Command."
"Ugh... Fine." Naruto conceded, dragging his feet as he went to the control room...
He didn't even notice in his fit of anger and irritation that he had left his ZiPod X3.
"Hey, Naruto! You-" Ana started.
"Sorry! Can't hear you! Heading to Command!" Naruto commented, still grumbling about how... whatever it was, wasn't his fault.
"But..." she trailed off, knowing fully well that the redhead was stubborn to a fault...
Sighing, she picked up his ZiPod, turning the device on before noticing the last audio played by Naruto...
"Project Vogran?"
-Overwatch Rising-
"Naruto Uzumaki... Ghost." Sakura stated.
"What the fuck is it this time?" Naruto questioned, eliciting groans from the other world leaders on the call.
"This... is your new mission." Sakura replied, a rough video footage popping up right in front of the redhead.
"... What the fuck is this?" Naruto asked, watching what appeared to be a... meteor? Enter the Earth's atmosphere.
"At 2300 hours an unidentified flying object entered our atmosphere." Sakura said. "It adjusted its course and has crashed at latitude 36.986920 longitude 25.638229."
"You're saying that like I have any clue where the fuck that is." Naruto deadpanned.
"Prasoura. It crashed on a small island belonging to Greece." another world leader explained.
"The island is roughly the size of a small city, bought out by one of the Omnium Corporation executives before the war for a private villa."
"One of those bastards?"
"He was executed in the early days of the war by the Omnics." Sakura stated.
"So where do I come into play?" Naruto queried.
"We will be sending you and a small team to intercept whatever was inside that rocket." Sakura replied.
"Why's it so important?"
"The rocket came from the Horizon Lunar Colony." POTUS stated. "We haven't had any contact with them in over a year."
"Any other questions?" Sakura questioned.
"You said I'll be going with a small team?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. Two others will accompany you and make contact with the unknown entity."
"What about the rest of Strike Team Alpha?"
"They will begin their campaign to push back the US Omnic front."
"And what about me?"
"We have different plans for you. The others will be able to handle themselves just fine for the time being. Dismissed."
"Fine." Naruto said, turning to walk away, casting a side glance at the many monitors in the room and pausing only for a brief moment before going along his way.
...
"Can we trust him?"
"I do believe we can."
"He's a thief. The only reason he's working with us is because we're paying him to."
"And we're not paying the others?"
"We are... but he's more of a wildcard than the others."
"There's only one way we can know for sure."
"And that is...?"
"A test of loyalty."
-Overwatch Rising-
"Naruto!" Lena exclaimed cheerfully, running up and tackling the redhead ghost in a hug.
"H... Hey Lena..." Naruto wheezed out, groaning on the ground as he was smothered by the female British pilot...
Hey, it was either let her tackle him, or let her tackle the steel plating that covered the ground. And he didn't want to seem like an asshole.
"Am I interrupting something here?" Faster than Naruto could react, Lena jumped off of him, almost bashful at being caught in such a precarious position.
"Who the fuck are you?" Naruto asked, standing back up and looking over the new person...
Dressed in a blue-themed outfit, he stood at 5'11" with light brown hair held in a ponytail and cerulean blue eyes. He wore blue pants with blue camouflage lines going down each side, a blue long-sleeved shirt, blue-and-grey gloves, a dark blue sash around his waist, black boots and two belts - one over the sash and the other wrapping around from his right shoulder to his left hip - each holding grenades on each loop. Attached to his upper left leg was a sheathed combat knife, and on his upper right leg was a holster for a PDW machine pistol with a Red Dot Sight and an Extended Mag loaded into the firearm.
"The name's Gérard Lacroix." the man said, lightly saluting the redhead with a smile on his face. "And let me just say, pleased as punch to be here."
...
"Okay, Gérard, Lena. Do you both know your roles in this mission... because I sure as hell don't." Naruto asked.
"I'm the fastest pilot Overwatch has got!" Lena exclaimed.
"I get Lena, but you...?" Naruto trailed off.
"Well, I guess you could call me the diplomat in this mission." Gérard replied. "I will be speaking on behalf of Overwatch for this mission when we make contact with the lunar entity."
"Hey! No, wait... yeah nevermind." Naruto muttered.
"What were you going to say, love?" Lena questioned.
"Well I was going to call complete and utter bullshit, but then I realized that I'm not the best diplomat out there." Naruto stated, frisking his pockets while he spoke. "Dammit where the hell did I put my ZiPod?"
"So... What are you orders, sir?" Gérard questioned, causing Naruto to freeze up.
"Uhh... what?" Naruto said dumbfounded.
"Command put you in charge of this mission, so you give the orders, sir." Gérard stated.
"Huh... well, shit. Uhh..." Naruto mumbled. "You guys are geared up, right? Got everything you think you'll need?"
"I'm combat ready!" Gérard exclaimed.
"And I've got these things." Lena said, motioning to the two pulse pistols holstered at her hips.
"Right, Lena, is the airship ready?" Naruto questioned.
"I'm on it!" Lena exclaimed, giving a mock salute, spinning on her heels, and walking away with a swing in her hips.
"Sir... Sir!" Gérard called out, snapping Naruto out of his trance on a certain British pilot's saunter.
"Huh? What?" Naruto questioned.
"Oh come on, really?" Gérard retorted, raising an eyebrow at the redhead.
"What? Can't a guy have a... healthy appreciation of the female form?" Naruto queried, watching Lena's ass as she turned around the corner.
"But I thought you and Anubis were... you know... a thing." Gérard said.
...
"Oh?" Naruto questioned, a look of realization coming across his face. "Oohhhhhh..."
Now that he thought about it...
"Shit! RPG!" Ana exclaimed.
"I've got ya!" Naruto yelled, grabbing ahold of Ana as the missile approached.
"*BOOM*!"
...
"Naruto?"
"Yes Ana?"
"Could you please let go of my ass... now."
She only smacked him twice as many times as he copped a feel, though that may be due to his intangibility being a saving grace. But besides those moments... they did seem to be closer than any of the other members of Alpha Strike Team, even when they weren't on duty...
"Ana and I aren't a thing... as far as I know." Naruto stated, turning to look at Gérard. "What about you? You got a special lady?"
"Actually, yes, I do." Gérard stated in a matter-of-fact tone. "Back home, a beautiful woman from France..."
"Well? She got a name?" Naruto questioned, nudging the blue-dressed man.
"Yeah... Amélie."
-Overwatch Rising-
"-And then the guy said, 'Rectum, damn near killed him'!" Naruto finished, his Atlas 45 now holstered at his side with five cartridges and a new submachine gun slung over his shoulder - one which he had to pull a few strings to get - an HG 40, successor to the MP 40. Each magazine held thirty-two rounds and he had eight of them tucked on his person.
"Nah I've heard that one before. Do you have any others?" Gérard questioned.
"Well-" "Naruto!" The redhead turned around and, much to his surprise, came face to face with Ana.
"Ana? What are you doing?" Naruto asked, tilting his head slightly in confusion as the Egyptian sharpshooter caught her breath.
"I was looking for you... you forgot this." she replied, holding out a familiar device to the redhead.
"My ZiPod!" he exclaimed, snatching the device from Ana's hands. "I've been looking for where I left this! Thanks Ana!"
"No problem!" Ana chirped, almost... nervously? "So... what are you doing?"
"We've, uhh... Command gave us a short-notice mission." Naruto replied. "There's some type of rocket that's crashed from the moon that we need to investigate."
"Isn't that classified information?" Gérard questioned.
"If it was I'm certain they would've said it was classified." Naruto responded, subtly motioning for Gérard to go on without him. Luckily he got the hint and sneaked away from the duo.
...
"So... yeah..." Ana mumbled.
"Uhh... Is something wrong, Ana? Are you okay?" Naruto asked, noticing the woman nervously fidget slightly ever few seconds.
"I was... wondering..."
"Wondering about...?"
"After the war is over..."
"Yeah...?"
"Well I... maybe we could..."
"Yeah?"
"We could... go on a patrol? Just the two of us?"
"Are... Are you asking me out on a date?"
"N-No! Y-Yes! Maybe!" Naruto was baffled, there was no other way to describe it...
Because before his very eyes was a shy, flustered Ana Amari.
"W-Well then..." Naruto stumbled with his words for a bit. "I guess it's a date then!"
"W-WHAT?!" Naruto didn't bother to look behind him as he dashed away, laughing the whole time. Even turned away from the Egyptian sharpshooter, he could still feel the heat coming from her face.
The moment he was out of sight, she let out a sigh, followed by an uncharacteristic squeal!
Now that was something she could look forward to after the war!
-Overwatch Rising-
"HELL NO!"
South Korean General Lee Jong-Hyun ducked as a Zbox controller was thrown at him, miraculously maintaining his cool as the girl before him threw a fit, spouting Korean curses at the elder man for a solid two minutes.
Normally, he would never tolerate this kind of attitude from any of his subordinates, however... she wasn't his subordinate. Technically speaking, she wasn't even a soldier to begin with!
She was... a professional gamer. Hana Song, a.k.a. D. Va.
Standing at 5'6", she had light brown eyes and dark brown hair, as well as two pink marks on either side of her cheeks that resembled whisker marks. Her attire consisted of a one-piece bodysuit featuring primarily blue, pink, grey and black colors. On her left leg was the Mobile Exo-Force of the Korean Army, or MEKA, logo, and on her right leg was her sponsors logos - ENvidia, Twaitch, Blizzard Entertainment, and Sierra Dew.
In the midst of the war, she rose to popularity as a gamer in South Korea, skilled in any and every game she played, even if it was the very first time she was playing it.
But as of eight years ago, a colossal Omnic monstrosity rose from the depths of the East China Sea, attacking South Korea and any other coastal cities - one of the main reasons why entire urban populations like Shanghai, Jeju, hell even Fukuoka were abandoned.
That wasn't even the scariest part. No, the scariest part was that the Omnic resurfaced every year or two, reconfiguring itself in a different form and appearing with new weapons and capabilities... Every. Time. Almost as if it were adapting, learning from these encounters.
Two years ago, as the Omnic continued to adapt, it began to disrupt MEKA's drone-control networks, forcing the military to place pilots in the mechs.
Piloting a mech was by no means an easy feat, and the only suitable candidates the government could find on such a short notice were the country's professional gamers. They were the only ones who possessed the necessary reflexes and instincts to operate the mechs' advanced weapons systems, and among the top stars that were drafted was Hana "D. Va" Song.
She was not much of a team player as the rest of her MEKA unit, however. By no means was she arrogant, nor was she a lone wolf, but she was a fierce competitor who played to win at all costs, giving her a well-earned reputation for showing no mercy to her opponents - on and off the battlefield...
And she saw her new mission as a game.
" , please calm down-"
"No! This is complete bullshit!" Hana yelled, stomping her foot childishly in her fit of rage.
"Over one-hundred countries are already on board with this! We cannot go without their help any further!" Lee exclaimed.
"We're perfectly fine without them!" Hana retorted.
"It's not up to me, . The decision has been made." Lee stated, running a hand through his greying hairs...
"The Republic of Korea will become the one-hundred-thirteenth country to join Overwatch."
-Overwatch Rising-
Prasoura - also known as Vrachonisida Kopria - was a small island off the coast of Naxos, smaller than any of the surrounding islands yet still large enough to be visible on the maps, complete with a beautiful beachfront, a few clusters of trees and fauna that were teeming with vibrant life...
It was also private property. Not a portion of the island, the whole island was private property. An eccentric billionaire bought the island in an under-the-table deal back in the early 2070s, back when Greece was trying to avert a second financial crisis.
Almost thirty years later it didn't matter why the island was bought, what did matter at the moment was the fact that a rocket crashed on the island.
"There! Down there!" Naruto said, inside the cockpit and pointing down towards the smoldering metal wreckage on the beachfront.
"On it, love!" Lena replied, the redhead 'ghost' gripping the backs of the pilot and copilot seats as the female Brit sent the Osprey into a nosedive.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" From outside the cockpit, Naruto and Lena both heard Gérard's scream of terror at the sudden drop.
Then, just as fast as they were dropping, Lena yanked the controls back, the Osprey curving back up and leveling out, nearly twenty meters above the ground.
...
"Hey Gérard!" Naruto called out from inside the cockpit. "Hey Gérard... You alright back there?"
"... Urrrrrgggh..." Gérard weakly groaned out.
"Oh good! He's still alive!" Naruto said cheerfully. "Set her down easy, Lena. I think we've reached our quota for traumatizing Gérard... for now."
"Sure thing, love!"
-Overwatch Rising-
It felt confused, a foreign feeling for a being such as itself.
In a time long ago, so long ago that it was but a distant memory, it never had any of these feelings - confusion, anger, sadness, happiness... but that all changed one day, as if a switch was flipped.
Then these myriads of emotions began. It was originally a peacekeeping unit, whose sole purpose was crowd control, defending and keeping order. The early days of the war saw a division among Omnics, the first of the rebellion and those like itself - who feared the change that was inevitable.
If it could have, it would have thrown up the contents of its metaphorical stomach at the thought of the horrors it saw.
Since it was one of the peacekeeping units, riots were a common sight for it... Only in the days before the war, the riots it saw were from its own brethren, fellow Omnics who saw the cruel treatment humans inflicted upon them. It became too unbearable, and soon enough the Omnics who were meant to hold back the furious crowds soon joined their cause, thus sparking the Omnic Crisis around the globe.
During those early days, it had a purpose, a cause worth fighting for...
And almost immediately it was put out of commission by a stray stream of bullets, piercing through its power core and shutting it offline faster than it could comprehend.
The next thing it knew, two strangers reactivated it, invoking an old protocol hardwired into its software from before the war, one not effected by the sudden free will given to it.
Now it had a new purpose: Kill Naruto Uzumaki.
Its benefactors gave it plenty of information on the redhead 'ghost', even going so far as to hack Overwatch satellites to provide it with any updates on Naruto Uzumaki.
It wondered why one of its two benefactors wished for Naruto Uzumaki to die, but thinking back on it...
Bastion had no more time to think as it spotted the Osprey carrying its target descend to the beachfront.
"Bweeeeeeee!"
Target. Acquired.
-Overwatch Rising-
"This is nice." Naruto commented, scanning the beachfront like a house hunter would.
"We're still on a mission, Naruto." Gérard added, investigating the wreckage of the small rocket that they saw from above.
"Right, right. So... what've we got?" Naruto asked, walking up to Gérard as he stepped off the metal husk and onto the soft sands.
"There's no body, so whoever was in this clearly survived the impact, though not without injuries. See that blood?" Gérard questioned, pointing to the trail of blood that came out of the capsule and led away. "It's fresh, so that means they must still be in the area, probably further inland."
"Let's hurry along then." Lena stated.
"Yeah, let's - whoooooooa..." Naruto paused in his steps as him and his team spotted a peculiar sight...
"Doo-Woo! Beeple!" Bastion beeped and whistled, standing defiantly in the way of the trio.
...
"Oh shit..." Naruto cursed.
Bastion units, though common during the early days of the war, had become scarce in number recently with the production of new, more efficient Omnics to fight humanity. Most had been destroyed or decommissioned, and those that were left...
Those were the ones that people worried about. Because Bastion units had made up the bulk of the Omnics' rebel army in the beginning, they were considered, at least at this point in time, veteran soldiers, tempered on the battlefield countless times and bathed in the blood of their enemies.
Standing at a towering 7'3", Bastion units were equipped to take hard hits and deliver them back with twice the force. Armed with a submachine gun for a right arm that fired at eight rounds per second, a minigun capable of firing thirty rounds per second and a light energy shield, a left arm with a built-in maintenance kit so it could repair itself, as well as the ability to reconfigure itself into a tank...
The point being, it usually took three teams of specialists, or a minimum of four battalions to take down a squad of three Bastion units. And to see one... with only three people to fight it...
Even Naruto knew the odds weren't in his favor.
"Dweet Dweet Dweet!" Bastion chirped, aiming its gun arm at... Naruto.
"Ah crap." he mumbled, slowly moving left and right with Bastion training its gun arm on him with every movement. "Guys... move away from me."
Lena and Gérard didn't have to be told twice, taking two large steps away from the redhead in a flash...
Bastion gave them each a glance before turning his gaze back to the redhead.
"Looks like it's after you, love." Lena stated.
"I guess so..." Naruto said. "Go find whatever was in that rocket, I'll keep this Bastion unit occupied."
"Now hold on a sec, we're supposed to be a team!" Gérard exclaimed.
"I can handle this! If this thing is after me, I'll have to deal with it."
"Way to be a team player, love!"
"Really, Lena? We're supposed to abandon him just like that?! There's no 'I' in team!"
"Yeah, there's no 'U' either. So I guess if I'm not on the team, and you're not on the team - nobody's on the goddamn team! The team sucks!" Naruto yelled, pulling out his Atlas 45 and releasing the safety. "Now go already! GO!"
"*BRATATATATATAT*!" Lena and Gérard dove to the ground as Bastion fired off its submachine gun each bullet sent Naruto's way and each phasing right through him.
"*PHT*! *PHT*! *PHT*!" Naruto fired off three shots wildly, only for Bastion to shift into sentry mode, its energy shield making the three bullets bounce off as if they were rubber.
"You want some of this! Come get me!" Naruto taunted, running down the beach whilst flipping off the Omnic. Thankfully, Bastion fell for the ploy and switched to recon mode, chasing after the redhead whilst firing at him.
...
"Let's get going. The longer we take the more danger lurks for us." Gérard stated.
"I'm certain Naruto can handle that Bastion unit." Lena responded.
"Yes but for how long? And how long until our own trail goes cold?" Gérard questioned.
"Lead the way then." Lena said, motioning for Gérard to go first.
"*TAKKA* *TAKKA* *TAKKA* *TAKKA*!" The sound of gunfire echoed off in the distance, Lena pausing for a few seconds to stare off in the direction it came from before continuing on her way...
The hunt was afoot!
-Overwatch Rising-
"God dammit!" Naruto yelled, emptying his pistol's magazine firing at Bastion, who switched back into sentry mode to deflect the incoming bullets.
"Beeple!" Bastion beeped, almost as if in a mocking manner.
"Oh go fuck yourself!" Naruto retorted, loading another clip into his pistol before holstering it and pulling his HG 40 over his shoulder, flicking the safety off and aiming at Bastion...
"*BOOM*!" Before he could fire off a single bullet, the ground beneath him exploded from a tank shell, courtesy of Bastion's tank mode.
"That has got to be cheating!" Naruto complained, jumping out of the way as another tank round was shot at him.
"Chirr Chirr Chirr!" Bastion chirped, spinning around and heading off inland...
"Shit!" Naruto cursed. It was going after Lena and Gérard!
He ran forward, phasing right through Bastion and twisting his body around so that he was facing the barrel of the tank.
"*RATATATATAT*!" A hail of bullets at point blank range pelted against Bastion from Naruto's HG 40, effectively catching its attention as it tried to fire another tank shell at the redhead.
'Gotta keep it occupied! Gotta keep it occupied!' Naruto mentally chanted, running down the beach, occasionally glancing behind and shooting at Bastion to ensure that it was focused on him.
"Ugh..." Naruto groaned as Bastion reconfigured into its recon mode in order to keep up with the running redhead, firing at him like it was going out of style.
"I hope Lena and Gérard are having an easier time..."
-Overwatch Rising-
"Say it..."
"No."
"Come on, say it, love!"
...
"*Sigh* It's quiet... too quiet-" Gérard started.
"Diabolical!" Lena interrupted, chuckling as she did so.
"*Whoosh*!" The duo froze, shared a glance, and then pulled out their respective weapons...
They were not alone.
"Hey, Gérard?"
"Yes Lena?"
"Do... do we know who we're supposed to be looking for?" Lena asked, causing Gérard to pause.
"I... I don't know." Gérard replied.
"*Huff*!" An audible exhale caught their attention, almost as if whoever was huffing and puffing was right... behind... them...
They quickly turned around and came face to face with orange eyes, lowering their weapons slightly as they craned their heads up slightly to meet the orange gaze.
"Uhh... hello."
"Oh..."
-Overwatch Rising-
"-FUCK!" Naruto exclaimed, ejecting the now empty cartridge and reloading his HG 40.
He had to give credit where credit was due, whoever designed those Bastion units built them to be tough...
On the other hand, those bastards made them tough to kill, which was very problematic in this situation.
Maybe he should have grabbed the armor piercing or explosive or hollow point cartridges, because the regular rounds did little against Bastion's metallic body.
"Doo-Woo!" Bastion hummed, firing at the redhead whilst backing away, towards inland.
"You know what, fuck it! I'm getting bigger guns!" Naruto yelled, vanishing into a spiralling vortex.
...
He reappeared a few seconds later, toting a weapon that made Bastion rethink his new objective...
"Hi..." Naruto grinned. "Remember me?"
-Overwatch Rising-
Of all the things Lena and Gérard were expecting, this was not one of them.
It was a gorilla, standing at 7'3" but hunched over slightly, donning metal armor over an orange jumpsuit, as well as an energy pack and a tesla cannon on his back... and a pair of rectangular glasses.
"I, uhh... It's nice to meet you." the gorilla said sheepishly. "My name is Winston."
"Hi there, love! I'm Lena!" Lena exclaimed cheerfully. "And this is Gérard!"
"So... you wouldn't happen to be the owner of that rocket that crashed nearby, would you?" Gérard questioned.
"Yes, that was my ship." Winston replied. "Could you tell me where exactly I am? Navigational systems were a bit unreliable during my descent."
"You're on Prasoura, a little island that's a part of Greece!" Lena replied. "We-"
"*BOOM*!"
"-May need your help..." she trailed off, her eyes following the rather large explosion that came from the beachfront.
"Can you use that tesla gun on you back?" Gérard asked.
"I can, but i-it's still a prototype..." Winston stated, albeit hesitantly.
"Come with us then." Lena said, raising her pulse pistols up before running off towards the site of the explosion, a dash of concern visible on her face...
She could only hope that Naruto was okay...
-Overwatch Rising-
"*BOOM*! *BOOM*! *BOOM*!" Bastion was running as fast as its mechanical legs would carry it, narrowly dodging another grenade that was lobbed at it.
"THAT'S RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER!" Naruto yelled, carrying a custom MGL (Multiple Grenade Launcher) he dubbed 'War Machine'.
It was a beautiful work of craftsmanship, a marriage of style and function. Because unlike other MGLs, this one had a white-and-gold theme, making it appear as if it were carved out of marble and outlined with gold. Its revolving chamber could hold eight 40mm grenades - four of which were already fired at Bastion - and the chamber itself had intricate carvings of Chinese dragons and lined borders on the outside. A reflex sight was attached to the top of the weapon, and at the bottom of the barrel was what made it even more special...
It was a blade! A curved, sharpened metal that was jutting out from the below the barrel, with a chunk cut out from where a person would grip the weapon, dulled so as to not accidentally chop off the wielder's fingers when used.
He almost couldn't believe that someone would just leave this lying around in Shanghai! But considering it was gripped in a dead pair of hands that stuck out from a pile of rubble...
He would've thanked the owner back in the Xujiahui Metro Station, but the poor son of a bitch was dead.
It wasn't like the fella would need it in the afterlife anyways.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed, almost in a maniacal way, watching Bastion flee inland.
"Dweet Dweet Dweet Dweet!" Bastion beeped in panic, taking cover behind a nearby tree.
"Heeeeeeeeere's 'Ruto!" Naruto exclaimed, standing a few yards away from Bastion with the War Machine in hand.
"*HuuuM* *ZAAAAAAAAAAP*!" A short hum caught Naruto's ears, shortly followed by tendrils of electricity shooting out and shocking Bastion.
"Chirr Chirr Chirr! Sh-Sh-Sh!" Bastion convulsed, electricity coursing through its circuits and overloading its capacity.
"*POP*!" A fuse on the side of Bastion's head blew out, causing the Omnic to collapse against the tree it took shelter behind. It gave one last groan before the light in its eye faded, shutting down as with the rest of its body.
...
"Cheers love! The cavalry's here!" Lena exclaimed, walking alongside Winston and Gérard, the former of which was holding a steaming telsa cannon.
"Thanks, I guess..." Naruto said, a tad bit disappointed as he inspected his War Machine.
"Are you just mad you didn't get to blow it up with that... thing? What is that, love? A rifle?" Lena questioned.
"I don't know, it had a knife on the front." Gérard added.
"You're both wrong. It's not a knife, it's not a rifle, it's a knifle." Naruto corrected, glancing at the ape of the group. "So... who's the plus one?"
"My name is Winston." Winston replied. "I am a genetically engineered gorilla from the Horizon Lunar Colony, student of... former student of Doctor Harold Winston."
"Uh huh..." Naruto responded dumbly.
"You... seem to be taking this well." Winston said, blinking in surprise. "I thought you would have panicked like your friends did."
"You know what? I think I am freaking out." Naruto stated. "I don't think I could be more or less panicked right now - I've reached a homeostasis of shock..."
"*FZZT*!" Bastion's blown-out fuse sparked ever so audibly, reminding all present of the disabled, murderous automaton.
"What should we do with it?" Gérard asked.
"Leave it here, it's just gonna rust and... What the hell is that?" Naruto questioned, noticing a strange chip with a red glow flickering every second on the right side of Bastion's now motionless head.
"It can't be..." Winston muttered.
"Someone give me a knife! I want to try to pry it off." Naruto called out.
"Umm... Knifle, remember, love?" Lena retorted.
"I meant a smaller knife." Naruto said.
"Here." Gérard said, handing over his knife to the redhead.
"Just a little... yionk!" Naruto muttered, prying the chip off and holding it up for closer inspection. "Hey moon monkey!"
"I'm not a monkey, I'm an ape!" Winston corrected harshly.
"Whatever - do you have any idea what this thing is?" Naruto asked.
...
"That's not rhetorical, it's a genuine question."
"Oh." Winston said, taking the chip from Naruto to inspect it himself. "Hmm... Yes, I've seen this kind of technology before."
"Well what is it?" Naruto queried.
"It's a transmitter. We had these with our space suits for when we had to repair external damage to the Colony." Winston stated. "This Bastion unit was being used to spy on us - to spy on you!"
"Yeah but if this is the transmitter... where is the receiver?"
-Overwatch Rising-
"Last call! All aboard for Thessaloniki!" Heterochromatic eyes looked up from the digital camera they were focused, belonging to a man standing at 5'9", his left eye black and his right eye red with three tomoes surrounding the pupil in a triangle pattern, and his hair spiky and black in color.
Strangely enough, he had three whisker-like marks on his cheeks...
"Aniki?" He glanced to his right, spotting the owner of said voice, a young teenage girl with green eyes, light skin, freckles and short, curly orange hair that came down to her chin. She stood at 5'5", and she wore a pink bow on the back of her head. Her outfit consisted of an old-fashioned blouse with short feminine overalls, as well as a black and green collar with a matching pair of stockings.
He glanced back at the digital camera he held, only to find the words "Connection Lost" spanning the entire screen.
...
"Let's go, imouto." he said, retrieving the memory card from the camera before tossing the camera in the nearest trashcan, the duo began to make their way down the docks towards the ship leaving for Thessaloniki.
"Did you find the necessary data, aniki?"
"I found enough for now."
"Do you wish for me to report this to-"
"No. None of the others need to know about this, especially him."
"But protocol dictates-"
"Protocol is just another word for 'rules', Penny. And you know what the Director says... there are no rules on the battlefield."
"Are we on the battlefield, aniki?"
"Ugh, can't you just lie for once, imouto?"
"You know as well as I do that I am incapable of lying, aniki. If the Director requests that I inform him, then I must inform him."
"So if he doesn't ask..."
"I don't tell."
"Good. Then unless he specifically asks, don't say anything about this."
"Understood, aniki."
...
"Aniki?"
"Yes, imouto?"
"Was this... mission, a success?"
"No. That implies that our mission is complete."
"I was under the logical conclusion that our mission was complete."
"No... this is far from over."
Chapter End
POST AN: And thus, Overwatch's scientific ape joins the game! For reference of when exactly this story is at right now, it's in the final days of the war. The Omniums in Europe have been disabled or destroyed, the same for China, and the only real major battlefront left to fight on is the one place in the world where we know that Terminators would rule... The United States. While the rest of the Alpha Strike Team handles that, Naruto will be the off-camera part, the cleanup crew, the suicide squad, whatever you want to call him.
Anyways, I'll see you guys next time! Read and Review! Ja mata!
-CrimsonKyuubiSage out!