(Courier's pov)

"Where do we start?"

Winston stared at the map for a moment, looking between Gibraltar and a country called Switzerland.

He stopped and looked back to us. "I think we should start in Switzerland and go find Mercy."

Tracer grew a grin bigger than what i've seen from her so far and Reinhardt, he just smiled and nodded in approval to Winston's idea. But Whose Mercy?

"Hey Winston, I'm afraid i'm out of the loop right now because I don't know who Mercy is."

Winston looked at me and was about to speak but he was instantly cut off from the energetic girl next to me that I could swear was just bouncing in place.

"Mercy is Angela Ziegler, the head doctor and one of the best field medics in Overwatch."

I look at the map and the list of names. She apparently is the closest and I also wouldn't mind having another pair of hands who are familiar in the medical field.

I look back to Winston. "I'm all for it Winston. Besides, I wouldn't mind meeting her."

Winston nodded. "Good, now what do you say Lena?"

Winston turned slightly to look at the still smiling Tracer. "Yeah, let's go get Mercy back loves !"

Winston starts to smile a little bit. "Alright, you Reinhardt?"

Reinhardt stands up from his chair. "We should go find Angela, it has been a while since I've seen her."

Winston nods and goes over to the computer and starts typing. "Alright everyone, our next objective is to go get Mercy. We will start the mission and go over the specifics tomorrow at six o'clock sharp."

Reinhardt collected his things and left to do his work elsewhere but Tracer, she was about to leave but she turned back around. "Hey Courier, do you think you could meet me in the docking bay? I could always use the extra help with the ship."

I shook my head. "Yeah I will but Winston needed to talk to me for a minute, so see you in a few."

Tracer smiled, turned around and left. I looked to Winston who was still typing away on the computer. "So you wanted to talk to me?"

He finished typing and turned around to look at me. "Yes, I need to speak to you about a few things Courier."

I crossed my arms. "And those things would be…?"

Winston straighten his glasses out before he begins his lecture.

"First I want to talk about your performance yesterday. It was unneeded, you went after them out of revenge for the people they killed, not for the sake of the mission. You also went in there with no plan and nearly got yourself killed because of it. I'm actually surprised your still alive, let alone stand and talk. You also brought Lena into this and got her hurt."

My heart stopped for a moment. "Wait, Tracer got hurt?"

Winston put an unamused face on. "Yes, she hurt her leg from a piece of scrap Roadhog shot. But that wouldn't have happened if she wasn't there to begin with."

I look down for a moment but I look back up at Winston. "I'm sorry ok? Where I'm from, I would kill anyone, ANYONE who would kill innocents that never deserved what happened to them like what happened Stuttgart. I have no excuse for what happened to Tracer and I will make it up to her somehow, alright ?"

Winston takes his glasses off and rubs his eyes. "BUT, there was a silver lining out of your outburst. You managed to draw Reinhardt's attention so he was more easier to convince to help us and you managed to delay them long enough for us to arrive even though we didn't get them. You are a valuable player in this fight between us and Talon because I've never seen anyone who has taken as much damage as you have and walk it off the next day like its nothing."

I felt myself start to grin a little through my lecture. "Well, I hope you get used to it because I have a habit of doing that alot."

Winston puts his glasses back on and begins to type on the computer again, pulling up multiple pictures of what looked to be my skeleton, organs, and brain wave chart. "This is another thing I wanted to talk about, your biology is very different to a normal persons it's astounding. I mean, you don't have a real spine for god's sake ! Would you care to explain this to me?"

I grab the chair Reinhardt was using and sit in it, ready to be here for a while. "I'm not sure you'll understand."

Winston sits down. "Then explain it until I do."

I put my hands up for a moment and back down to my sides. "Alright, where do you want to start?"

WInston points to the picture of my prosthetic heart, spine and section of my brain. "Let's start with this."

"My prosthetics? Well, those were when I traveled to the Big Empty when I was out in the Mojave a few months back. "

Winston looked at me quizzically. "The Big Empty, What is that?"

"The Big Empty is one of my eccentric travels among my time out in the wasteland I called home. It was originally called BIG Mountain but after the bombs fell in 2077, it's less mountain and more crater now."

Winston grew a little impatient. "Could you get to the part where you got your prosthetics?"

I leaned back and straightened myself out before I continued. "BIG Mountain was the home of some of the brightest minds of the 20th century, containing all of their research and secrets all over the facility. Well, one day. Your happy go lucky Courier came across a crashed but still functioning satellite in one of the old world drive ins. I decided to examine it before anyone did anything to it because finding a satellite in the Mojave is one thing, but a still functioning satellite is another."

Winston made a rolling gesture with his hand, wanting me to continue. "Well, when I touched it. I was surrounded by some sort of force field, I couldn't move or do anything for that matter. Well after a few seconds, I was engulfed in a bright light that was similar to the way I got here. When I could see, I felt a stab of pain along my back, chest, and scalp. When I felt where the pain was coming from, I found recent scars that weren't there before I touched the satellite."

Winston looked a little concerned for a moment. "What happened to your organs then ?"

I chuckled a little, thinking back to my first encounter with the brains of BIG Mountain. "Well it gets stranger, I did find my organs and the people who took them but they are a bit different than one who expect for an organ thief. Imagine floating brains in a jar with monitors for eyes and a mouth."

Winston looked at me confused. "Floating brains, in jars?"

I laughed a little. "Yeah, I didn't expect it too. But with all the crap that happens in the wasteland, I should have learned to expect the unexpected."

I regained my composure but I still maintained a smirk on my face. "Yeah, after a little talk between them and I. I found out that they tried to lobotomize me while I was knocked out from the Force field that brought me there."

Winston instantly put his hands up, signaling for me to stop. "Wait, wait, wait, they tried to lobotomized you ?"

I nod. "Yeah, they tried but they messed up even though they managed to remove my heart, spine and brain in one operation."

Winston now looked even more confused than before. "Wait, they removed your brain ? Then how did you even talk, walk or even get up to do anything? Without your brain, you could not, SHOULD NOT, be able to do anything. Its simply not logical."

I shrug at Winston's question before I think back when I was there. "They said something along the lines of my brain still somehow sending my body messages, even though I had no brain. Also, don't ask how that works because I barely understand it myself."

"Hold it for a second, we're getting off track from my story."

Winston stopped thinking out in space and looked back at me again. "Ok, during my talk with the brains. They told me that , a rouge brain who threatened the think tank which is the place where the brains reside. Had my brain after it was extracted from my body, so they said I need to retrieve lost technology so I could gain access to the forbidden zone which was where Mobius was. So after our conservation, I went after some of the lost inventions that were out in the Big Empty to defeat . Well after I got all the lost experiments, I confronted Mobius who sent dozens and dozens of robo-scorpions to kill me."

Winston still trying to understand my story, decided to ask another question. "Whats a robo-scorpion ?"

I lift my hand and hold it above the ground, around the height of a robo-scorpion. "Giant robot scorpions that were around yay big, now stop interrupting my story. I swear you're just as bad as Tracer when I tell em."

Winston nods, remaining silent until I was finished with my tale from the wastes.

"Well, when I got to Mobius. He, well he also wasn't what I expected for a brain who wanted to kill me. He was an old scientist who was under the influence of psycho, a drug that increases the the section of your brain that allows you to feel emotions. Particularly anger, so it makes you act a little feral so you do more damage to the enemy in your blind anger."

Winston looked a little intrigued at the prospect of a drug that made troops go a little ape shit on their enemies. "When I was speaking to him. He told me that my brain might not want to come back with me so that meant I had to have a little one on one conversation with my brain. Lets just say it was one of the strangest chats I've ever had to this day but luckily, I convinced my brain to come back with me."

The look on Winston's face told me he could understand why it was one of the strangest conversations I've had so far. "When I got back to the Think Tank, installed my brain again and I talked with the brains again. While talking with them, I lied and told them I was because he told me that they were going to hijack my body and go experiment on the creatures and people of the Mojave. They believed my little white lie and they still remain at the Think Tank to this day."

Winston decided now was a good time to ask questions. "So, after your adventure you kept the prosthetics the brains gave you. Why, did they work better than your original heart and spine ?"

I smiled and stood up from my chair. "Yep, the spine increased my strength and the heart made me immune to poisons and venoms."

I looked at the clock and started to walk towards the door, but WInston wasn't done with the questions yet. "Wait Courier, I still need to go over a handful of other things."

I still kept walking away. "Sorry Winston, but I've got to see Tracer. I promise I will answer the rest of your questions the next time it comes up."

Winston got up from his seat on the floor and walked to the computer for the dozenth time today. "Alright Courier, but you better answer the rest of my questions next time we discuss this."

I turn a little and tip my hat to Winston. "Will do."

(Ten minutes later)

After walking to the docking bay I'm immediately greeted by the sound of power tools and other mechanical noises.

I walk a little further in and the sounds grew a little louder, I kept walking forward until I came across everybody's favorite heroine forking on the dropship. She stopped and turned to me with a look of glee apparent on her face.

"Courier, you're finally here ! What took you so long?"

I strode over to her." I was telling Winston one of my adventures."

She giggled a little and walked away from the ship and to me. "You told him one of your famous 'Courier tales' huh?"

I was soon directly right in front of her. Yeah I was, sorry it took longer than expected. But now that I'm here, what do you need help with?"

She grinned a bit more and grabbed my hand, guiding me to where she was working.

Hey guys and gals, I got another chapter up and going. SO remember to comment and review so I can do better at writing chapters and it was a comment from one of the comments from the viewers that caused me to go for Mercy first. See you guys in the next chapter. -Paladin Leroy