'Where... Where am I?'
Sombra slowly awakens and tries to get up, but finds that she can't move. A noise to her left catches her attention, and she finds that she can move her head. She lifts her head slightly to look around and finds that she is lying on a hospital bed, wearing a white gown, with tubes and machines hooked up to her. The noise comes again, and then there's a slight gasp from the same direction, and Sombra turns her head to see what it is. Standing only a few feet from her bed is the second most beautiful women Sombra had ever seen. She was tall, with a perfect hourglass figure, bright blue eyes, blonde hair, and the most beautiful shining smile, wearing a wonderful blue and white suit with a red band on her arm.
"Ah. You're awake. I have good news for you, and bad news, which would you like first?" The woman spoke with a thick Swiss accent, and her voice was rather light and caring. It finally clicked in Sombra's head who the woman was. She was Doctor Angela Ziegler, code named Mercy. Sombra had a ton of info on her, and from what she had, Sombra knew she had just barely scratched the surface when it came to this woman's dirty secrets. Sombra answers honestly, hoping that Hana had survived.
"I'd like the bad news first, Amiga."
Angela sighs and picks up a clipboard off to her right on some bedside table.
"There's a lot of bad news to give, so you'll probably need the good news after." Angela sighs before beginning with the bad news.
"The bones in your right shoulder were completely pulverized by whatever hit you, from what Jesse said it was a sniper bullet. The bullet that went through your lower back area did quite a bit of damage to your liver and one of your kidneys. I was able to repair and fix that. The bullet that hit you in the chest just barely missed your heart, but it became lodged in your spine and is cutting off your nerves, paralyzing you until it can be removed. I would have removed it, but whatever tech you have implanted in your body is preventing me from being able to get to it." Angela pauses for a moment to shift position and flip the page on her clipboard "I doubt you noticed after the first shot that hit your shoulder, several more bullets struck your right arm, and did way more damage than could be repaired. I couldn't save your arm, and it had to be amputated. I attempted to get a robotic arm for you, but your tech seemed to reject it, and wouldn't allow it to be installed." Angela stops, watching Sombra to see her reaction, and is mildly surprised when Sombra doesn't seem to care.
"Getting the bullet out of my spine should be rather easy, you just need me to tell you how. My Tech will only accept other tech which has my programming tech signature so that no one can implant trackers and stuff into me, so if you let me design the arm I can add in any necessary tech and things that I need for it to be a proper replacement. Now, what's the good news? Well, first, did Hana survive?"
Angela sighs, putting down the clipboard as some of her worries about Sombra are relieved. She clears her throat and starts talking again
"Hana is alive. I would not say she is well, as whatever it is you used to send her to that hotel room really disoriented her and caused quite a bit of extensive bruising. She passed out after puking, and she hasn't been able to get out of bed since. I'm not quite sure how to help her. The other good news, is that we did find someone who knew enough about your tech to lead me in removing it from your arm before I had to remove it, so that tech was salvaged." Sombra pauses, trying her hardest to figure out who could possibly have known her tech at all, and the only people she can think of are the Talon leaders. Sombra's head snaps to the right when she hears a voice start speaking for her right side, following the sound of a door opening.
"Bonjour encore, petit espion." The woman standing in the doorway speaks with a thick french accent, and she has a slight blue tint to her skin, which had used to be a full purplish blue. Her eyes glittered and an evil smile spreads across her face.
"Améile." Sombra hisses her name, staring the woman who had used to be the infamous Talon sniper, Widowmaker. Angela looks back and forth between Sombra and Améile, very quickly noticing the sudden amount of tension and anger between the two. When Améile had been escaping Talon, Sombra had been sent to stop her, and had defied her orders and helped Améile escape. Despite this fact, right before Améile had vanished from sight, she had snapped around and shot Sombra 3 times in the chest, fully aware that Sombra didn't have her jacket on. She had then torn a piece of Sombra's tech out of Sombra's chest, pocketed it, and kept running, laughing the whole way. Now, there she stood, that evil smile on her face. "It's been a while, Améile. How have you been, estúpida perra de araña." Sombra says to her, wishing she could get out of the bed and attack the smug assassin. Améile just chuckles and pulls something from her pocket, and it takes Sombra a full 3 seconds to realize it was the tech Améile had ripped from Sombra's chest.
"I'll just be over here, you two obviously need to settle some things." Angela slowly backs away, not really wanting to turn her back on them, but doing so eventually. Améile walks right up to the bed and lays the piece of tech on the bedside table.
"Sombra. I would watch it if I were you. They still don't know who, or what, you are. This piece of your tech is what I used to get past that stupid system of yours to salvage the tech in your arm, and it helped save your life. Trust me, when I shot you back then, it was necessary. Do you know what would have happened if you'd returned unharmed? They would have known, and they'd have killed you. I saved you then, and I saved you now. You can have this back, but remember, if I tell them who you are, Morrison will probably have you executed immediately." After Améile finishes what she was saying, keeping her voice low so that Angela can't hear, she turns on her heel and vanishes back out of the room. Angela cautiously comes back over to check on Sombra a few minutes later.
"Doc. I would appreciate it if you would remove that bullet now. The implant connected to my spine has two buttons, near the top and bottom, which when given the correct input code and permissions, will remove the implant from it's base, giving access to the spine. It should already be unlocked, as it responds to my mental commands. And please, don't keep me awake for the process."
Angela just nods, and after a couple seconds, injects one of Sombra's IV's with a knockout drug, which drops Sombra back into the blackness of a dreamless sleep, moments before Angela begins the procedures.
48 hours later...
Sombra sits back and sighs, glad to finally have a functioning arm again. She flexes the fingers a bit, watching the metal pieces moving so cleanly and swiftly. She runs her metal hand through her hair, marveling at the way the small nano fibers on the metal act like human nerves, relaying the feeling and texture of things. She jumps a little when the device next to her goes off, and she picks it up to check the messages. To her surprise, she finds a message from Angela saying that Sombra's cure for Hana's issue had worked perfectly. Sombra smiled halfheartedly, knowing that what she was about to do probably wasn't going to end well. 20 minutes later, she stepped into the meeting room, and paled a bit as she stood there, 10 pairs of eyes staring her down. Jack Morrison(Soldier 76), Winston, Angela Ziegler(Mercy), Améile Lacroix(Formerly Widowmaker), Lena Oxton(Tracer), Genji Shimada, Jesse McCree, Fareeha Amari(Pharah), Reinhardt Wilhelm, and Hana Song( ).
"What is it you wanted from us?" Jack growls in his low scratchy voice, an irritated look on his face.
"Gimme a moment amigo, this is just a little intimidating. I want to introduce myself. Before any of you say or do anything, I want you to listen to me. First of all, Améile and McCree already know exactly who I am, but I doubt they've told you. My name is Sombra." At the mention of her name, Sombra sees Soldier's hand twitch towards his pistol, but Angela grabs his wrist and gives him a death stare. "I was formerly an agent of Talon who was involved in several missions against Overwatch. I was recently dispatched on a mission to kill Hana Song, but found that I was unable to do so, for personal reasons I don't I should have to share with you. I abandoned Talon, and stopped an assassination attempt on Hana Song with Jesse McCree's help. I am here, and will make no attempts to fight you or escape, no matter what you decide to do. But if anything does come up, remember that I am willing to lay down my life to protect Hana."
For several moments, no one does or says anything, until Jack suddenly pulls away from Angela, jumps to his feet, draws his pistol and aims it right at Sombra's face.
"I can't trust anything you say or do. You were apart of Talon, and no matter what you do you can't escape that, and therefore, I can never trust you." Soldier half growls half spits at Sombra as he speaks, his hand never wavering. Without any warning, Améile jumps to her feet and moves right in front of Jack, pressing her forehead against the barrel of his pistol, causing everyone in the room to hold their breaths.
"I guess that would apply to us both then, wouldn't it? If you're going to shoot her for being apart of Talon, I guess you'll have to shoot me first." Améile stands there, staring Jack down, who is now shaking in equal parts rage and fear, as he now has absolutely no idea what to do. "I voluntarily left Talon for Lena Oxton, and she is leaving for Hana Song. Does this not make sense to you? Did it just slip your mind that Sombra took several bullets, including one that nearly killed, for Hana? She lost her arm for the girl, and she didn't even care. All that mattered to her was that Hana was okay. Are you just so damned caught up in your hatred of Reaper and Talon that you can't see the truth? Sombra is so clearly in love with Hana that anyone could see it. Have you seen the looks Sombra's been giving her one she thinks no one is paying attention? Are you really willing to kill this girl who was only doing what she needed to do to survive? Are you going to kill the girl that saved Hana's life and nearly lost her own in the process? I guarantee you, that if she had saved Angela's life, you would have awarded her some damn medal and pardoned everything she had ever done. Dieu fichu." By the end of her rant, Améile was yelling, her face turning a purplish red in pure rage. Sombra just stood there, her face bright red with embarrassment. Soldier snarls and throws his gun across the room and storms out, knowing that everything Améile had said was true and made perfect sense, but was pissed off that she was right. Without any words or anything, Hana gets up, walks up to Sombra, and then hugs her. She then speaks ever so quietly into Sombra's ear so that only Sombra could hear her.
"Just so you know, you weren't as sneaky as you thought. I saw you almost every time you were there, saving me. I can't thank you enough." With that, Hana pulls back a bit, and then plants a kiss right on Sombra's lips. Sombra instinctively returns the kiss, which lasts a whole 5 seconds, before the both of them have to pull back to take a breath. With a small wink, Hana turns to run after Angela, who had went to follow Solider. Sombra just stands there, not really sure what to do now, adrenaline rushing, and her heart pounding like crazy, going so hard and fast that she thought it might beat right out of her chest. The only ones still in the room at this point are Améile, Lena, and Sombra.
"Well then, Love, looks like you're part of the family for now. Let's hope we can make that permanent." Lena speaks rather loudly, jarring Sombra from her trance. Sombra just nods, still too stunned to speak. Lena laughs, and the two of them leave, leaving Sombra there on her own. Sombra slowly starts walking, and makes her way back to the small room she had been given. She flops onto the bed and stares at the ceiling, a big giddy smile on her face. Sombra slowly drifts off to sleep, the moment of the kiss replaying over and over in Sombra's head.
I don't know why it takes me so long to write these chapters. Wait, yes I do. It's because I'm so easily distracted. Anyways, here's chapter 4. Please leave a review and tell me what you think. If there's anything you think I should improve, or anything you think I've messed up, please let me now.