AN: So yeah, I'm writing. Probably gonna start posting every other day after this Friday, or after chapter 10, since after the lemon is when I plan to start the main arc for Project Olympus, and related stuff. So yeah, here goes.
Oh, and I've actually had sleep this time, so I shouldn't make as many errors, if any.
OC submissions are still open until Friday, and possibly later than that, depending on the poll results.
Speaking of which, I forgot to put it onto my profile yesterday, so apologies for that, it's up there now.
As per usual, I own nothing.
Somewhere near King's Row 11:15 A.M. GMT
Tracer's POV
I just realized how close we are to where I met Karkarius… Maybe after the mission we can catch a movie or something… wait... no, we've got stuff to do… As I stared off into space with what must've been a quite comical look on my face, I was shaken out of my thoughts by Mcree, who asked about Karkarius, and where I found him.
"Actually, It was at the Mondatta thing, he's the one who warned me to save him, as he chased after Widowmaker."
"And you're sure he's one of the good guys?"
"Yes. I trust him with my life."
"You're also bonkers about him, so that doesn't mean much"
"OI! You don't get to judge him!"
"Calm down, I'm not judging him, I'm just being careful, since Talon is responsible for his enhancement, I wonder what else they did to him…"
"The mind wipe process is electricity based, and didn't work on him. We've got the files to prove it."
"Who says that Talon didn't plant them?"
"They led here, which judging by the fact that Reaper wasn't prepared for all of us last time, means that it wasn't a trap, and that we've got the upper hand for a moment. Widowmaker might even defect to us, so I doubt it's a trap."
"Can't be too careful, just sayin" he said, walking off, and leaving me with more doubts in my head than I'd like.
Muttering to myself "dammit Mcree…" I stood up, and walked over to Mercy, who was cleaning up her medic's tools, having stitched Roadhog's knee, and used her tech to heal the hole, miraculously.
"Mercy… You trust Karkarius, right?"
"Of course, why?"
"Mcree said something that made me doubt him…"
"Oh dear, what did he say?"
"He mentioned that Talon could've easily just created those documents to fool us into thinking that Karkarius was actually free of them, rather than a puppet…"
"Lena… He loves you, without a doubt… He'd never lie to you, not even if his life depended on it."
"Yeah... but-"
"No buts, He loves you, end of story."
"Thanks Ange" I said, hugging her.
"I'm off to scout ahead, keep everyone alive for me, would you?"
Laughing, she replied "Of course, be safe"
"Me? Safe? Nah, I'm gonna wing it!" I said, blinking away
Karkarius' POV
As I watched Lena blink away, I looked back at the map I'd copied, and given to her, making sure that I knew the way to the lab as well, then I dropped down, handing pharah a copy.
"Alright. Mcree, Genji, and Mercy. You three are going to stick behind the rest of us, and bring up the rear, we'll stash these two somewhere safe, then retrieve them later, as our first priority is containing the other Projects, Hopefully we won't run into any others, preferably not Theia…" I said, shuddering
"Anyways, Let's do this!"
Calling Lena on a private channel, I said "hey, Find it yet?"
"Yeah, am I to hold position?"
"Yeah, we're on our way, we're dropping Roadhog and Junkrat off, they shouldn't cause too much trouble."
"Alrighty then Love, see you soon!"
As she hung up, I wondered how I'd met her, through pure coincidence, not too far from where I was standing. Life's a strange thing…
"Alright guys, Tracer's found the lab, and is in position. It's up to us now."
As the rest of the team readied themselves, I mapped the fastest route to Tracer's location, memorized it, and once the rest of the team was ready, I started us on the route.
"Alright guys, Tracer didn't run into any trouble on her way through, but that doesn't mean that we won't, so eyes peeled."
Pharah spoke up "what's the plan when we get inside the lab?"
"That… Is a good question. It depends on what we find."
"And if it's an entire squad of Talon soldiers?"
"Then we fight. We have more firepower than them."
"And if it's more Projects?"
"We run, If they're against us. If they'll join us, I'll set about looking for the mind wipe room, as we'll need to reverse engineer it, and make it do the opposite of it's original purpose, as it didn't erase the memories completely, it actually just blocks them off, and makes them inaccessible to the subject."
"How'd you know that?" Mcree asked
"Well, after I escaped, I'd realized that I'd had missing memories. The mind wipe wasn't as effective as it should've been, but it partially locked some of my memories. I've since then gotten them back. So, I'm only assuming that that's the case, if I'm wrong… Well, let's just hope I'm not wrong."
As we arrived at Lena's location, and got into position, I watched the entrance, It seemed vacant, but then again, so was most of this area. Probably a result of Talon's meddling.
Once we were all ready to go, we took our positions, and got started, Pharah and Mcree took lead, securing our entrance, and escape, if need be.
Genji and Tracer came in behind them, followed by Mercy and myself.
After we all got inside, we were surprised at how quiet it was. It was almost silent, even to me, with my enhanced senses.
"Strange…"
"Yeah…"
"C'mon, let's find Reaper and get out of here. Tracer, Genji, scout ahead, Mcree, Pharah, you two stand guard here, Mercy, you're with me, I might need your help if we find any Projects in stasis."
As everybody set about following orders, Mercy and I headed off towards the File room
"Why here?" Mercy asked
"I need to know what Projects are here, and where they're at"
"Ah, Ok."
"Can you start with those files there? I'll start over here"
"Ja, will do."
"Thanks Mercy"
"No problem"
After a few minutes of searching, Genji radioed "guys, we've found something, Zeus, you'll want to see this immediately."
"On our way, Mcree, Pharah, change of plans. We're moving farther in"
As Mercy and I started to leave, she handed me a file "You might hide this from the others, I don't think they'd like to see this"
As I looked down, I read the Project name: Rhea.
"Rhea… Mother of Zeus?"
"More specifically, your mother."
"Shit."
"Yes… It would seem that Talon's been around for a while. Definitely longer than we'd originally thought."
"Alright let's go, the other's found something" I said, putting the file into my jacket
When we met up with the others, we were in a hallway, outside a door labeled: 'Project Containment"
"Well then, we're in the right place." Mcree was talking, as Mercy and I arrived
"Yeah, Zeus?" Pharah said, upon seeing me
"..." I was speechless for a moment "well… This isn't what I'd had in mind."
"We figured that you'd want to go first"
"Yeah, Tracer and I will go in first, the rest of you stay out here."
"Got it"
As Lena and I stepped inside, I put away my rifle, I'd use my talons if need be.
"Love?"
"I'm fine Lena, just a bit surprised."
"You're not shocked?"
"Dammit. I had that coming, didn't I?"
"Yep."
"C'mon, no time to waste, let's see who's home."
As we looked around, we found a few empty cages, labeled Posiedon, Ares, Theia, and Hades, but that one seemed to have been detonated. We found Projects Apollo and Artemis as well, though… They weren't themselves, as they took up their bows, and aimed at us
"Leo! Lyn! It's Me!"
They tilted their heads, slightly lowering their bows
"You're not Talon…?" Leo asked, puzzled
"No, I escaped." I said, walking closer, my mask folding away, as I pulled my hood down
"Karkarius?" Lyn said, puzzled
"The one and only"
As Lyn hugged me, Lena stepped forwards into the light
As Lyn pulled away, she looked over at Tracer "OH MY GOD IT'S TRACER! LEO IT'S TRACER!" Lyn always looked up to Tracer, she was her favorite of the entire Overwatch crew.
Lena chuckled "C'mon you two, we've got to get out of here."
"We've got to find Reaper first, though…"
Leo spoke up "He ran that way" he said, pointing towards the door opposite the one that Lena and I came in through "The others were mind wiped successfully, but we weren't. The machine broke after you escaped a few days ago. After your escape, Robyn and the others left with one of the Talon Leaders yesterday."
"Shit. So Samantha and Garret?" I asked
"Gone, well… locked away inside the new versions, Amphitrite, and War."
"Shit, that's gonna be fun to deal with."
"Well, Reaper hasn't left yet, He ran through here and released us, hoping that we'd kill you, but we're not that stupid."
"Alright you two get the others, Tracer and I will go on ahead."
"Got it. You leading?"
"Yea"
"Remember when we were kids?"
"Playing war games? Yeah."
"This is gonna be like that…"
"No deaths? Hopefully"
As Leo and Lyn went off to collect the others, Lena and I advanced into the next room, where Reaper was waiting "Hello Zeus, Tracer."
"Thanatos. Surrender already?"
"Of course not. I don't get paid to surrender."
"Oh, is that what motivates you now?"
"It's surely not justice."
"How disappointing."
"Yes, Very." He said, pulling his pistols and trying to shoot us, as an arrow ended up knocking it away, and another hit his other one, as Leo and Lyn walked up behind me "well… Looks like you're really outnumbered now." I said, as Mcree, Pharah, Mercy, and Genji walked in behind Leo and Lyn. "surrender yet?"
"Dammit."
"Awww… Is him afraid of failing?" I said, taunting him
As he growled and charged at us, I simply tapped him on the shoulder, channeling enough electricity to knock him out "Night night."
As we tied him up, using some stuff I'd made to be immune to his ability, the 8 of us, 9 if you count the sleeping Reaper, but I don't. The 8 of us returned to where we'd left Roadhog and Junkrat, and they were gone.
"Shit."
"Well, we've got the main objective, as well as a copy of the up to date Talon database."
"But still…" I said, frowning
"We won, just enjoy it."
"Yeah, I suppose so."
We all returned to the plane, Reaper got to sit between Leo and Lyn, as they'd easily be able to restrain him if they worked together.
Upon returning to base, we were greeted by Winston, waiting in the hangar.
Smiling as I had Leo and Lyn bring the now conscious Reaper out of the back of the plane, I walked over to him "Well Winston, we've got two more recruits, Projects Apollo and Artemis."
"And what of the other Projects?"
"Well, we've got Arachne in custody, Thanatos too. Unfortunately The rest of them are already turned over to Talon. I suspect that Hades escaped too though, as his cell was detonated."
"So, other than that news, anything interesting?"
"We've got a more updated version of Talon's Database, more data about me, and My mother."
"Your mother?"
"She was Project Rhea…"
"Oh dear… That means…"
"Yeah, Talon's been around for longer than we'd thought."
"Her temporal sight… that must've been what they needed her for, and they used you as leverage, and when she refused, they turned you into Zeus, labelling her Rhea…"
"Yeah, that's what I was thinking. She's probably alive."
"But…"
"That's the only explanation for it not being noted in her file" I said, handing him the file "and Winston, can you not show this to the others?"
"I suppose, but why?"
"I don't think they'd take it too well…"
"Alright, I'll keep this to myself, anything else?"
"Just tell the others that Tracer and I will be busy in a moment."
"OH. Yeah, can do."
"Thanks big guy" I said, heading to my room to get changed into my off-duty outfit.
Afterwards I headed over to Tracer's room…
This is gonna be fun.
AN: Well… We all know what that means.
Yeah, Some of the other Projects have now been hinted at, as well as the two sibling Projects being fully introduced, I'll do a description of them soon, or I'll put a Doc with their basic looks and info. Either way, I'll go more in depth with them later.
Reviews and PMs welcome, as per usual.
As promised, the next chapter will contain lemony goodness, hopefully it will be good, though it will be my first time writing something like that as both characters, so yeah…
Anyways, Stay Shiny Everyone!
