One good thing about the nuke was that everyone at Gibraltar and Rogue thought that it was an accident, which was true. At least from their knowledge. Winston had of course been pretty upset, but he was more worried of what might happen with the rest of the world, especially with the countries that had nukes.

He had used old communication techniques to tell most of the world powers about their screw up and most of the leaders understood and they didn't end up firing anything at anyone. They even arranged a cover-up, claiming that extremists detonated the warhead for their god.

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Since then the trio of Joe, Tracer, and Zoe had been laying low, but this was their first op in about a month.

They were in Belgrade and they were looking to assassinate a prominent leader of a rebellion in the country. He was located in a bunker on the edge of the city and it was heavily fortified and it also had a fully-stocked military base around the entrance too. The team decided to head in at night since there was less security and they could sneak around a lot easier.

Zoe was set up about a mile away with a sniper rifle equipped with a suppressor and a night vision scope. Tracer and Joe were creeping up to the base's front entrance. It was just a road-gate that was only manned by a single guard, who was sleeping peacefully in his control station. Tracer blinked in and she broke his neck, swift and silently. The two then proceeded up the road to what looked like a barracks and an armory. They decided to split up and along with the assistance from Zoe, they cleared out the top base and Tracer and Joe went to the bunker.

They found the entrance. "Huh, I didn't know anyone would make Fallout Vaults a reality, but they did." Joe said as he went to a control panel by the door. "What are you talking about?" Tracer asked as she went up and examined the door. "Well, uh, I'll tell you later." Joe said awkwardly as he got the door to open.

The door opened very loudly and the intruders were ready for a fight. But there was no one to greet them. They waited for a little bit and they finally went in. They walked across a metal bridge to what looked liker a control center. There was a control panel there for the door along with a bunch of out dated tech and there was even a weapons rack there.

Joe had only been using a pistol for the last few ops due to his new powers but he decided to take a shotgun from the rack due to the closed confines of the vault. The two went through the vault without seeing anyone, not even a speck of blood either.

They eventually made it to a central office that would have been used by the vault's leader and there they saw their target's head on a pike. His eyes were still open and it looked like he had just died less than an hour ago. Tracer went in to look more closely while Joe started to contact Zoe, but he couldn't get any reception down there.

He heard something shuffle outside the entrance to the office and he motioned to Tracer. She nodded and she counted down from three with her fingers before she drew her pistols and she then blinked outside the door.

Joe heard a struggle but there weren't any shots fired. He called out to Tracer but he got no reply.

Suddenly a flash bang was thrown in and he was blinded. He felt someone kick his stomach, but his enhancements helped him take the blow. He fired blindly with his shotgun and he heard a man groan in pain. He was then kicked in the face and Joe was floored. Just as his sight was returning to him he saw someone coming over to him, he was wearing what looked like SWAT gear and his face was covered behind a tactical visor and a bandanna. There was a deep red stain where Joe had shot him, it was covering the whole right side of his torso.

"Long time no see Joe." the man said before he knocked out Joe.

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Joe woke up on the side of a road. He was in a ditch and he could see several big-rigs and cars passing on the road above. He blinked a few times, but very slowly. He finally gained the strength to sit up. He saw a tree nearby and he crawled his way over. He couldn't feel his legs, but they were there.

He sat up against the tree and he heard sirens in the distance. He looked off to his right and he saw a big metal object about three yards away, it was on fire in some places and it looked like there was someone was getting out of it. He looked back towards the road and he saw red and blue flashing lights. He saw two figures start to make their way down and Joe heard two loud bangs. The figures were crumpled heaps on the ground, one was rolling towards Joe. He saw a bloody hole in the middle of the guy's forehead.

Joe looked over at the figure. It seemed to be trying to reload the gun it was carrying, but it was also holding its side and it eventually collapsed. Joe waited at the tree for a while before he could finally walk, his legs seemed to have stopped working for some reason, but he could finally move again. He didn't want to question why, he was just happy that he could stand. He went over to the car and he saw the figure on the floor, probably knocked out.

He went towards the car and he looked into the backseat and he saw Tracer there, she had a huge gash across her scalp line. Her Accelerator was sparking from the center. When Joe saw it, he reached down to his belt, where he found a knife he always had hidden near the buckle. He cut her free of the seat-belt and he dragged her out from her shoulders.

Despite his enhancements, he was left exhausted after he got her a safe distance away from the car. Which exploded a few minuets after she was in a safe spot. He climbed his way up to the highway and he looked out and saw that there was a vehicle in the lane closest to the ditch that wasn't moving. It was hard to make it out in the dark, but he realized that it was the black SUV that they had rented in Budapest.

He went to the driver side window and he looked in and saw Zoe passed out on the steering wheel. The cars were going around her and they seemed extra annoyed when Joe was trying to get her to wake up and unlock the car. Finally after copious amounts of banging on the window she woke up. She started up the car and pulled into the service lane and she got out of the car.

"I don't want to know what happened, you can tell me later. But Tracer and the guy who attacked us are still in the ditch. So, lets get them." "Okay, well, let's do that then. I'll explain what happened when we get to the rendezvous." Zoe said. The two hauled Tracer and the mystery man up the ditch and they put them in the backseat, being extra careful to restrain the mystery man.

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After evading the police that were staring to show up, Zoe drove the car on to a main highway and she started to explain what happened.

"So, I was watching the entrance to the bunker and I was trying to radio in to you guys to find out what was going on. But I guessed the signal was jammed. So, I waited for about an hour and then I saw a guy drag you and Tracer out on makeshift gurneys. He loaded you two into a car and he started driving. I began to tail him and I radioed back to Gibraltar." she started to say. Joe nodded and she continued, "So, he must have sensed me tailing him when I screwed up at a rest stop, and he chased me all around Europe until now. We are just a few miles out from London, I managed to run him off the road but I also got knocked out in the process. And right now, we are making our way to Tracer's girlfriend's apartment." Zoe said as she started to enter the city.

"Jezz, I must have been out for a really long time. Did he have me and Tracer hooked up to something?" Joe asked. "Yeah, you guys even woke up a few times so he could feed you and so you could use the restroom. But he kept injecting some sort of anesthesia-inducing fluid into you and he would then knock you guys out and continued driving." Zoe explained. "Huh, I've only known one person to use that method, but he died long ago." Joe said.

The two drove in silence after that and they eventually reached the apartment building.

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Author's Note

Sorry that this took longer than usual to write, but I was having a severe case of writer's block. But don't worry, I have some big plans for the future for this story which I think you'll like. So sty tuned.

Happy Easter, and I hope you get all the skins you want in the Uprising Event. See you next time.