Orpheus lied in wait amongst the machinery and concrete. He looked down and saw an asp viper of medium size slithering below him. He watched the snake for a minute. It would temporarily stop moving and stick it's forked tongue out, then it would keep moving. Eventually it moved past Orpheus' field of view. Orpheus wished his existence could be as simple as that.
Before he could begin contemplating something else, Orpheus heard the distant hum of an all too familiar aircraft. He looked to the setting sun on the horizon. He saw three dropships moving towards the Watchpoint.
Orpheus pulled a flare gun out of his belt and fired it to the sky, this was their signal that the battle was about to ensue. Orpheus threw the empty flare gun to the ground, he drew his blade he briefly inspected it. Then he jumped down to head to the cliff face to meet the aircrafts.
The edge of his feet dangled over the cliff. Orpheus looked to the water below and then back up up to the dropships. Then a rocket came hammering into the propeller of one of the planes near the back. It spiraled and crashed into the side of the cliff. Orpheus chuckled at the thought of his momentary déjà vu at the sight.
The two remaining aircrafts separated and the center one fired torrents of bullets at Orpheus. He dodged the bullets and rolled into cover. He looked over and saw the other ship, dropping its passengers into the base. Orpheus noticed that the shooting stopped. He also noticed that these soldiers were different, they were mechanized. Then he tried to run into the fray of silver plated soldiers, only to be met with a bullet that narrowly missed him.
Orpheus looked up after recuperating and he thought he saw the shadow of, Widowmaker?
No. That's impossible. It's mechanical.
It had her same body shape but had no hair and was completely plated in steel and whatever else Talon could muster up.
A soldier charged Orpheus. Orpheus impaled him in an instant, throwing his body aside, the soldier got back up, Orpheus decapitated him. His metal head clanked on the ground. Orpheus looked back at the figure again, then he heard the battle cries of the Overwatch rebels and members. This momentarily distracted him and the figure grappled away. Orpheus felt a knot form in his stomach.
Orpheus pursued the still unseen figure, he used his thermal vision and saw that it gave no heat signature. After chasing it passed Winston's lab, through the hanger, they reached the gate to the final part of the Watchpoint. The figure stopped in front of the door. Orpheus decided that he'd take a risk, he launched himself from the top of an airship, but the figure caught him by the ankle mere moments before he connected with his clawed boots. Orpheus was swung around and went through the doors, nearly ripping them apart.
Orpheus landed with a large chunk of the door on top of him. The figure walked into the sunlight and revealed itself.
"You've lost your touch, snake." It said through a heavily mechanically distorted voice.
It put s boot on the door and looked down at Orpheus.
"We are the newest edition, made to hunt reptiles." It said.
"What the fuck are you?" Orpheus said trying to buy himself some time.
"We are Tekryn." It said
It had a sleeked metallic silver female body with red lights running down the thighs, shins, biceps and forearms. It utilized an all to similar gauntlet on its left arm. She had a helmet that was nearly featureless, and had four red tubes running from the back of her head, two went to her spine and the other two went to a separate shoulder.
A blade extended from the left gauntlet and rise above her head about to swing. Then before it could strike the helmet's faceplate retracted, all but the right eye.
Orpheus looked in horror as he saw the now scarred and one-eyed face of Amélie Lacroix. She looked as if she was in pain and couldn't control her actions.
"Help... " she whimpered.
Then the faceplate slammed back down, and the distorted voice came back.
"Silence!" Then the blade came down, but Orpheus was narrowly missed by it. He threw the door off of him and the Widowmaker-cyborg hybrid with it.
By the time Orpheus retuned to his feet, Tekryn had recovered as well. Orpheus drew his longer, deadlier blade. He also pulled his hood down and unhooked his metal cowl, it hit the ground with clink. Orpheus was either going to die with honor today or live with guilt of killing an innocent woman and his good friend for the rest of his life.