Hello Everyone! I just want to let you know that there are some mistakes in the first few chapters where I pretty much said that Reaper is just an operative and not a council member. I will rectify that the first chance I get. Enjoy!


Watchpoint Gibraltar was on high alert. As Reaper is escorted to the detention block every single gun is trailed on him, from the agents to the base's automatic security system. One wrong twitch and he would be blasted into smithereens. He, however, was very calm about it. Turning his head towards the crowd he spotted the worried look of a certain Swiss doctor. He turned his head away, not wanting to deal with her at the moment. He was shoved into the cell the energy field was on with only two guards guarding him. He looked at the cuffs on his wrists, designed to release a shock when someone tampered with them, something he used on his prisoners during his Blackwatch days. 'About time Morrison wised up,' he thought bitterly.

In the command center of the Overwatch base, the core members were having a meeting.

"Now that we have him what are we going to do?" asked Genji.

No one said anything for a while, because none of them thought that Reaper would surrender. McCree stood near the door seemly uninterested in the whole discussion. Angela and Lena looked at Jack and Ana with worried expressions, trying to discern what they are thinking with no success.

"We need him to tell us what he knows," said Jack finally. "Reaper is smart. He wouldn't betray Talon unless he knew he could beat them. He knows the inner workings of the organization, which will give us a huge advantage over them."

"But how are we going to get the information out of him? He won't give in to torture," Genji said causing Angela and Lena to glare at him.

"No, we won't torture him. It won't do us any good," answered Jack. "I was thinking we could persuade him, or trick him into revealing something. But it must be someone who had a good relationship with him. Angela, you and Gabriel used to be close, correct?"

"I object to this!" roared Reinhart. "Gabriel is not the same man we used to know, he won't think twice to hurt our angel."

Besides him, Torbiorn grunted in agreement.

"I object to this as well," said Genji calmly.

"Your opinions are noted, however, this decision doesn't belong to you," he said and then turned to the Swiss doctor. "Angela, we need you. You're the only one who has a chance of getting some much-needed information."

"I refuse. I am a doctor, not a spy," she said with a hard voice. "If there is nothing else, I must go check on my patient."

Once the renowned surgeon left, Jack concluded the meeting and everyone except him and Ana left.

Jack spoke eventually. "You know this is the only option we really have."

Ana said nothing as she debated with herself. On one hand, she was against the idea of using Angela this way, but on the other they were desperate. If this kept going another Omnic Crisis would become unavoidable.

"Maybe we could try and capture the hacker Gabriel was with," she suggested but she knew it was futile.

"That will take a lot of time. We need to keep pressing up the advantage we have or Talon will regroup and this war with them will last a lot longer than it has to," responded Jack.

The sharpshooter sighed. "I'll think about it," she said and left.


Once Sombra arrived in her hideout in Castillo the first thing she did was to collapse on her bed. She was tired both physically and mentally. When Gabe have been cornered she tried to get to him, she really did, but the idiot destroyed the communicator and she couldn't pinpoint his location. Not to mention she barely escaped Overwatch. She knew Gabe would be fine for some time, Overwatch wouldn't torture him, but they would surrender him to the UN and the UN is manipulated by Talon and Talon won't be merciful. She needed to bust him out, but she didn't know how. Using the blackout trick again seemed like the most reasonable choice, but she had no way to know that it would work again. The Overwatch AI might have taken countermeasures for that. A frontal assault on her own is out of the question. She tried to think of other options, but none of them seemed like they would work. 'The only thing left to do is to use our ace in the hole,' she thought while suppressing a yawn. 'There is no use in thinking about what to do when I'm exhausted. I need at least two hours of sleep to help me think this through.' After setting up her alarm she quickly went to bed and promised herself she would come up with a plan to but Gabe out.


Angela has organized the medical files of all Overwatch agents, again in order to distract herself. What she really wanted was to have one glass of wine, but with so many new agents about, she decided against it. A knock on the door interrupted her.

"Come in," she said.

The door opened revealing Captain Amari. Angela frowned in displeasure. "If you're here to convince me to-"

"Just hear me out first, then decide," interrupted the older woman. Angela nodded and Ana continued. "Jack is right in using this strategy Angela. We need to keep up the advantage or this war with Talon will progress and more people will die. Worse it could lead to another Omnic Crisis. If we don't get any information out of him we will be forced to give him to the UN. We can't use the same excuse that he was brainwashed like Amelie to keep him locked up here. You should know that I and Jack have a feeling that the UN is manipulated by Talon and if that is true you know that they won't be merciful to Gabriel if they capture him."

"If the UN is controlled by Talon, why did they let us operate freely and supported us financially?"

Ana shrugged. "Maybe they made a bad decision or maybe, and most likely, they have another traitor in their midst and that is why Gabriel has managed to stay one step ahead of them. Or maybe us old soldiers are just paranoid. The bottom line is if we don't get any information we will be forced to give him to the UN and we won't see him again. But if he were to tell us something we could help him," she said and Angela looked away from the old soldier. "We can't force you to do it, but at least consider it," she said and with that Ana left the office.


Across the globe in a dark room of a secret facility what's left of the Talon council has converged.

"As you, all are aware we have suffered tremendous losses this couple of months," began Doomfist. "We have been betrayed by one of our members, another is dead, and several of our facilities have been destroyed and lost a lot of our agents. We have underestimated our opponents and we paid for it. However, the time to retaliate has come. Our sources confirmed that Reaper has been captured by Overwatch and is held in their base in Gibralter. This is the perfect chance to kill two birds with one stone."

"Their defenses are very strong," pointed out Sanjay Korpal, the Vishkar Corporation official. "Even more so that a former employee of mine quit taking some valuable technology with her."

"I thought that no one was allowed to take any tech with them when they left your company," said Maximilian

"She had documentation that stated any new technology that hasn't been approved by the company to be researched belongs to the individual. I don't think she knew about this so she must have had help," explained Sanjay.

"Tell us more about this technology," ordered Doomfist.

"It's a photon barrier that covers 25 meters. Nothing short of an aerial bombardment can destroy it. However, because it's in the development area it only lasts 15 seconds."

"I see. As of now we have two ways to approach this: we either try to destroy it or we could wait 15 seconds, both options leave us open for their anti-aircraft weapons, "mused the Talon leader.

"There is something we haven't taken into account. Reaper has a partner and I don't think she would abandon him now. But she is not capable of busting him out on her own, she needs help. And that's where she will use our attack will provide the distraction she needs," pointed out Maximilian.

"But how would she know when we'll attack?" asked the Vishkar Corporation official.

"We have a mole admits our ranks," said Doomfist.

"Yes, that seems like the most logical conclusion," supplied the casino owner.

"We can always let the UN take custody of Reaper and then he will be delivered to us," said Sanjay.

Doomfist shook his head. "Reaper will talk before that happens. He knows we control a majority of the UN and he will talk to remain in the Overwatch base. If we don't act now he will tell our goals."

"But what about the mole?" asked the omnic

"For now we let the mole be. Our only way to discover the mole's identity is to capture Reaper or Sombra. We should also try to retrieve Widowmaker and Sanjay's former employee. Now let us prepare for the attack," said Doomfist.


Reaper stood on the small bed in his cell thinking about his next move. He noted the air ducts in his cell that were used to pump out knock out gas if the prisoners were acting up. He thought about using them to escape, but he could maintain his wraith form for 3 seconds, not enough time to find an exit. He could summon his shotguns to blast away the force field of his cell, but that would trigger the gas release and he wasn't sure if he was immune to it or not, not to mention the entire base would be on high alert if he did that and they won't hesitate to gun him down. The only hope he got was to get outside help. 'I know that Sombra can act impulsively, but even she won't try to get me out on her own, right?'

Before he could think more about it the sound of clang rang across the hall. Reaper smirked, how that boy manages to be stealthy with those boots was beyond him. Sure enough, Jesse McCree was standing in front of his cell.

"Well, isn't this ironic," said the mercenary while getting up. "I remember a time when our positions were reversed."

McCree said nothing.

"Aren't you going to offer me a deal? I tell you everything about Talon and you let me leave a bit longer."

"We aren't going to kill you," said McCree like he was trying to defend himself

"No, you're not going to. You are the good guys, you don't kill unarmed people or prisoners. But the UN doesn't share your opinions. Even if I did talk and I stay here until you deal with Talon, there will come a time when the UN would want me to answer for my crimes. And they will either experiment on me until they discover what made me like this, giving me a gruesome and painful death in the end or downright get a firing squad," he paused and looked at his former protégé who was now glaring at him. "I think my money will be on option one, what about you?"

McCree didn't respond.

Reaper chuckled. "Relax, neither of that will happen. I will escape from here in no time."

"Even if you do get out of this cell you will be holier that shredded cheese before you even step one foot outside."

Reaper chuckled again. "Come on, McCree. Give me some credit, this is not my first impossible escape."

Without warning, McCree turned and head towards the exit. Once the cowboy was out of earshot, Reaper let out a sign. He hoped that McCree didn't catch up on his bluff. If memory serves him he had about a week before the UN would demand his arrest. If he couldn't find an escape until then he would be forced to talk to buy himself more time, but in doing so would give Overwatch a huge advantage.


The next morning two guards came to his cell and escorted him to the medical wing of the base. When he entered the laboratory Angela was making herself busy with something on her desk and Amelie glared at him from her cage.

"You!" she hissed at her former comrade.

Reaper chuckled. "Good to see you, Widow."

She said nothing as she glared at him hatefully. Reaper didn't know if he should consider this a progress or not.

The next couple of hours were spent taking scans and samples from the mercenary. Once Angela was done he got up and was about to be escorted to his cell when he turned towards the doctor. "Why won't you look me in the eyes? Do you find me that repulsive?"

Angela said nothing as she leaned against her desk, her back turned to him while Amelie watched the scene unfold with interest. Reaper signed and followed the guards back to his cell. Hours later the famous surgeon stood in front of his cell staring right at him.

"You said that I don't look you in the eyes because I found you repulsive, but that is not true. I knew what you did when you were part of Blackwatch and while I didn't approve of what you did, I knew that you didn't enjoy it either. I didn't find you repulsive back then," she said.

"Then what changed?"

"You did. You do things that are even worse and you don't seem to care anymore. But there is something that I don't understand: why did you order your friend to destroy the satellites? Why didn't you walk away? That doesn't sound like the Reaper at all."

The mercenary shrugged. "I don't like senseless killing Doc. Never did. This was no different."

"And yet you killed people for just being in your way. You killed Overwatch agents without batting an eyelash."

"They made their choice. They could have run, but instead, they tried to oppose me. And are you really surprised that I don't care about Overwatch agents? If you want to talk about not caring, you should have this conversation with Morrison. All those agents I killed was because I wanted to smoke him out, but he only came to confront me when all those people were already dead. Not to mention when he did found where I was he didn't know he would face me."

"Still you spared Lena, gave me and McCree a chance to stand down. Why?"

"I was feeling sentimental and as for you I figured you are the only one who could get me back to my former state."

A smirk found its way on Angela's face. "You can't lie to me, Gabriel Reyes. I know that you still care about us."

"That's where you are wrong," he growled. "If I cared I won't try to destroy Overwatch or kill my former friends. I told you before I was feeling sentimental. That won't happen again," he said and went to lie on his bed.

Angela signed and left the Detention Block. Gabriel was always a hard person read person, but she thought that she got the hang of it. Turns out years of being apart made her forget how to read him. And what she hated to admit is that Gabriel was not the same person he once was. True, he still had the basic personality traits that made him Gabriel Reyes, but now he is cruel and merciless. She knew Gabriel used to unsavory tasks when he was the commander of Blackwatch, but she knew in her heart that he never took pleasure in doing them. For him, those things were part of the job of keeping the world safe. However, now she wasn't sure that was still the case. Once she entered her office, she felt how the hopelessness of the situation consumed her because she wasn't sure that she could reach out to Gabriel.


The next day he was brought in one of the many interrogation rooms where Jack and Ana were waiting for him. 'Brings back memories,' he thought with a smirk.

"Tell us everything you know about Talon," Jack ordered.

Reaper smirked behind his mask and leaned further in his chair, trying to get comfortable. This action didn't escape on Ana and Jack who felt their anger rising.

"We know you deserted from them, so why not help us in beating a common enemy. 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' after all," continued Jack.

Reaper said nothing.

"Work with us Gabriel," said Ana. "You know that the UN will take you if you don't cooperate with us."

"How about a game of chess? You beat me and I tell you something about Talon," said Reaper.

"We don't have time for games!" snapped the former commander.

"Too bad, I was getting bored in my cell you know."

Jack was about to lunge at him, but Ana put a hand on his shoulder to calm him. "I'll play with you. However, if you just screw with us we'll send you in a bow to the UN."

A half hour later, Reaper and Ana were in evenly matched. They both lost their queens, most of their pawns, one of their rocks and their knights. However, things turned for Reaper when he baited Ana with one of his bishops to take away her last rock and put her king in check. Ana chewed on her lower lip as she fell into his trap. She could move her king back, but Reaper's bishop would put her in checkmate. As she was thinking on her next move, Reaper gently toppled his king, surprising both his former friends.

"Talon has multiple bases around the globe. These bases sent a report on their activity every month on an encrypted frequency," the mercenary said.

"That's it?! That's what you are going to tell us?! We already knew that!" snapped Jack.

"I never said it would something you didn't know."

"You son of a bitch!" Jack yelled and pounced on Reaper, punching him in the face.

"Jack, stop it!" yelled Ana as she pulled her friend of their prisoner.

Despite being beaten, Reaper let out a chuckle.

"What's so funny?" asked Ana enraged.

"Nothing, I just proved my point."

Ana glared at him hard before calling the guards to take him away.

"Wait," said Reaper suddenly and turned towards his former best friends. "Talon wants to create another Omnic Crisis in order to strengthen mankind."

Ana and Jack's blood turned to ice. "How would that strengthen mankind?" asked Jack

"They believe that mankind has gone complacent in their pace and wish to strengthen them through conflict."

"And do they really believe that, or is it just some line to cover the profit they'll make if a war breaks out?" asked Jack

"While some on the Talon council will profit from an all-out war, they do believe that it will be beneficial for humanity in the long run," Reaper responded before he was led to his cell, leaving Ana and Jack to digest this information.


Angela stared at the results on her desk. The scans she performed on Reaper confirmed most of her suspicions about his abilities, he also showed something that alarmed her: his cells were decaying and regenerating at a fast rate. From what she could tell Reaper had no control over this. She recalled how his victims were found: pale, decayed, empty husks and deduced that he took their vitality in order to sustain himself. If that is true then it will come a time when his cells would only decay. Fear shot through her at the thought of losing Gabriel again and she started to work on how to find a way to prevent his cell from decaying. For hours she performed and found out her staff could stop the decay, however that is only a temporary solution. Angela figured that whatever caused his cells to decay had to do with what Moira did to him. Angela was above of cursing the dead, but she couldn't help but hate the woman at the moment. She leaned back in her chair and thought on her next move. First, she brought on her computer Moira's papers to try to get an idea of what she might have used on Gabriel. Next, she needed to procure healthy cell samples in order to test Moira's ideas and then reverse it. Tomorrow she would have to start Reaper's treatments with her Caduceus staff.


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