I opened the door to Lena and I's room with two bags slung over my shoulder, getting ready to grab my gear and pack up for the mission today.

"Oi luv, what ya doing?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Packing my gear for the mission today, I'm taking off in an hour."

"I'm your partner right?" She asked.

"Nah, I was gonna give you a break and work with someone else, if that's okay." I said, grabbing my gas mask and wiping the dust off of it.

"Yeah sure that's okay. Who are you working with?"

"Uhh... I was gonna work with Bastion today, thought he would be useful if we got into a bad situation."

She cocked her head to the side confused, looking at me as if I had three heads. "Bastion? Really? Why?" She said.

"Well, I had worked with everyone else on missions, never even got to talk to him the entire time I've been here. Well he can't talk but you get what I mean. Anyways, he hadn't been on a mission for a long time so I figured I would have him come along too."

She shrugged, realizing my reasons. "Okay then. Good luck, see you when you get back."

"Thanks, see ya Lena!" I waved goodbye after finishing packing my bags and walked out the door. Now, where in the hell is Bastion anyway? He doesn't have a room, and he isn't training, so where is he? Guess I'll ask Angela.

I made my way through the base, nodding and waving at my fellow agents as they walked by doing their different things. I saw Angela talking with Ana about something while drinking tea at Angela's desk. I knocked on the door and opened.

"Sorry to interrupt but any idea where Bastion is? I can't find him and we are supposed to go on a mission." I said peeking my head through the door.

"I'm pretty sure I saw him in the training facility 10 minutes ago." Ana responded, taking a sip of tea.

I raised an eyebrow. "Odd, didn't see him there. Anyway, see you guys when I get back."

They both smiled and said goodbye before I ran off to find Bastion. I opened the door to the facility to find nothing. "Odd..." I said. I walked in, peeking my head around the corners. "Here Bastion Bastion... where are you?" I said, almost speaking to him how a person would talk to a dog. "Hmmm..." I sighed and finally admitted defeat, walking out. Well I better put these bags down, they are killing my shoulders. I jogged off to the plane I was using to go on the mission with.

I cocked my head when I found Bastion sitting on the plane staring right at me as if he had been waiting. The light on his head flickered to life as he sat up, waving at me. I waved back. "Someone is a happy camper today Bastion." I said smiling, he jumped down, making steps toward me. "Beep bop boop beep." He said, a cheerful pitch to it. "Why thank you, you look lovely today too." I said, taking it as a compliment, having no idea what he said. He simply turned his head to the side confused, before taking my bags and placing them in the plane. "Uhh thanks?" I said confused at what he was doing. I checked the engines before lift off as Lena taught me and turned around to enter the pilots seat only to be met by Lena's face barely an inch away from mine, smiling from ear to ear. I jumped back, startled. "You remember what I taught you right?" She said, the cheerful smile fading and forming into a concerned look. "Yes." I responded.

I pushed by her, taking my seat in the pilots seat. "After you check engines you always.."

"...check on passengers before lift off." I finished her sentence, rolling my eyes, remembering every word of the rules of flying she drilled into my head.

"Good. I'm proud of you." She said smiling. "My little baby is all grown up now." She said sarcastically, wiping fake tears away from her eyes. I simply flipped her off, hearing her laughter before I flipped the switch and turned on the engines. I gave her a thumbs up before making my way out of the hangar. I flew for a few minutes, getting us on track to where we were headed. I then turned on autopilot and sat there peacefully, just watching the clouds go by. I quickly sat up, realizing I should talk to Bastion. I walked down to the loading bay to find him in some sort of rest mode just sitting there. "Uhh... hello?" I said. I slightly tapped him with my foot, to which he snapped to life and looked right at me. I smiled, taking a seat next to him. He simply stared at me, never flinching or moving. "So... wanna know what the plan is for the mission?" He nodded at me with a few audible beeps and boops in response.

"Okay, so we are infiltrating a base of operations set up by Talon opperatives in London. So I'm going to be doing some recon from the outside and then we use me as a distraction, allowing you to steal their information and get out, if anything goes wrong, I'll infiltrate and provide back up for you and we get out of there. Any questions."

"Beep boop beep." He said, giving me a thumbs up.

"Good." I said. The rest of the way there was me taking a nap in the pilots seat while Bastion played around with his bird. I napped peacefully, still catching up on the sleep I had missed the last couple of weeks when it was interrupted by beeping and alarms of the plane telling me we reached the destination. I quickly turned them off and landed a few miles from the base so it wouldn't draw any attention.

It was a bit of a hike there I won't lie. We had to walk up this really steep hill to scope out the base and find a way for Bastion to sneak in. We decided on the front door basically. I would draw the guards out, and while they searched for me I would open the door, allowing Bastion to enter and he could gather info by hacking in and then we get out of there. Easy. Trick was, it was a sky scraper in the middle of a populated area, so we couldn't just blow it up. We had to scale the wall with magnetic boots so we could climb up the building.

We had been climbing for 5 minutes now, and we were almost at the top. The view of the city and the flying cars passing by and the lights was breathtaking, literally, since I was hyperventilating from my fear of heights. Once once we reached the top, I threw a pebble at the ground next to me, which to my surprise, oddly worked. As they walked toward it, me and Bastion snuck by, entering through the door. "Alright, guess I'll join you." I said, following him, wondering how we had not been caught with Bastion's rather loud footsteps. We walked through the hallways, checking every corner for the database. When we turned one corner, we found a map of the building and found out the central database was located at the 167th floor. I found a microphone, which was wired to go through speakers located around the building. "Oooh, what's this button do?" I said, touching the red button, it turned it on, allowing me to speak into it. I cleared my throat.

"Ahem, hey dumbasses. Yeah, you, I'm talking to all of ya. This is an agent of Overwatch speaking, and we appreciate you allowing us into your facility so graciously. Now, if you don't wish to get hurt, I would suggest leaving. Oops, I accidentally locked the doors. Looks like I have to kick all of asses. Aw well, I won't kill you, well, probably not. We'll see. Well, tata."

I turned it off, motioning for Bastion to come join me, we were gonna take the elevator. I was feeling quite cocky, until sirens and red flashing lights started to blare. "Warning, self destruct system engaged. 10 minutes until detonation, all faculties evacuate now."

"Well, shit, 10 minutes it is then. Ready?" I asked. Bastion gave me a thumbs up, to which I smirked, as the door to the elevator opened up to find 50 guns trained on the door. "Wrong floor?"I said smiling nervously. I quickly dodged to the side and pressed the button to make it go up a floor. It opened again as I stepped out, and I quickly spread fire to the floor, burning through it. I dove head first into the hole. "Here I- oh there is no carpet on the floor you son of a-" I hit the hard tile floor, groaning in pain. Bastion simply hopped down and landed perfectly, then turning into a turret, eliminating all hostiles in the room. We quickly ran to the database, and I stepped aside allowing Bastion to do his thing. "Gathering information, estimated installation: 6 minutes." The voice in the computer said. "Aww son of a bi-" The voice interrupted me relaying the message: 7 minutes until detonation, leaving us 1 minute to escape. Talon reinforcements made their way to our position, training their guns on us.

"Quick Bastion, fire!" He then turned into a turret, firing at all of them, killing a few. I shielded him from the barrage of bullets flying at him, then sending them back at them, making a few of them drop dead, and some others run away in fear. The remaining agents quickly realized their mistake of not running when they had the chance. I burst into flames, lashing out in all directions, leaving scorch marks wherever I stepped. I flipped over them, landing behind them. Before firing at them, turning some of them into toast. One left. He didn't have a weapon, he cowered in fear, begging for mercy. I walked slowly, picking him up by the collar, looking into his fearful eyes. I smirked devilishly at him, thinking of what I could do to him. I decided to let him live to tell the story of what happened here. I pulled him closer. "Yeah. You'll never forget me. WILL YOU?!" I dropped him to his feet, as he scrambled to get away and escape, I chuckled at how he ran so fast from a kid.

I made my way to Bastion. He gave me a thumbs up, signaling that the extraction was complete. "1 minute until self destruction."

"Shit, come on!" I screamed, breaking into a full on sprint out of there. I turned a corner and slid to a halt, agents covering the door. "Stairs it is then!" I said, bursting through the entrance to the stairs, sliding down them, as Bastion kept up with my fast pace. There were agents running out of there too, trying to escape just as we were, we bulldozed through them, not bothering to fight them, we needed to get out ourselves. "25 seconds remaining." The voice sounded, adding to my adrenaline. I burst through the door, we were only on the 122 floor and were not gonna make it out that quick. We found ourselves in a hallway, but with a set of windows down the long hallway, leading outside. I turned to Bastion. "Thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked. He nodded, "Beep bop boop." We ran as fast as we could, making our way through the seemingly endless hallway. "We may have a 0.000001 percent chance of landing on a car but it's better than dying!"

I screamed breaking through the glass into a free fall, the air running through my face. I spread my hands out reaching for a car, but missing them all, nearing the ground at a rapid rate, I started to free fall, accepting I was probably gonna die. Then a familiar robotic hand snatched me from mid air, dragging me up onto the car he landed on. I could only hug him. "Thank you, oh thank you." He surprisingly returned the hug, accepting me into his arms. I broke free from it and smiled at him. "Beep bop boop boop." He said. I nodded, chuckling, "Yeah, beep bop boop boop." I said, wishing I could understand anything he said. I leaned down and knocked on the windshield, motioning for him to roll the window down. The passanger actually did that and I slid in and opened the door for Bastion to get in.

You would not believe how awkward the ride back home was.

Bastion looked extremely uncomfortable in the seats and the driver was very scared because of the stories that the news put out on the daily talking about how we are dangerous vigilantes and should be arrested on sight. I took off my mask, revealing my missing eye, making the driver even more scared. I smiled at him, telling him everything was gonna be alright, and how we weren't going to hurt him. Then he started asking questions about what we did. Then I told him the truth of what happened on all the incidents that had happened recently on how we were trying to help save people. He then told me a rather heartwarming thing, saying people still believed in us and what we were doing, and that most people would rather have Overwatch back. I smiled at him, thankful for what he said. I realized we were nearly there and told him to drop us off here so he didn't know where the base was. He did as I asked and dropped us off, and I waved goodbye. And that left me and Bastion alone to walk back home. I walke slow pace since I was human and got tired. He then stopped in front of me, turned into a tank, and picked me up, holding me on his back. "Thanks Bastion." I said wearily. "Beep boop." I smiled.

We made our way back to the headquarters, without a plane, but with info. So mission accomplished I guess. We walked in to the base to be greeted by the agents like usual, but a rather confused Lena.

"Umm, where is the plane." She asked, folding her arms.

"Uhh, yeah, 'bout that. We sorta accidentally had to escape by flying car and a citizen was kind enough to give us a ride." I said.

"You what?!" Just about every agent said that.

"He gave us a ride, I told him to drop us off a few miles away, and he did, and me and him walked away. We only did that because they blew up the base. But hey, we got the information you wanted!" I explained.

Angela face palmed and shook her head.

"Hey, the kid and Bastion got the info. That's all we need. It could've been executed better but that's the point of training now isn't it?"

"Yeah, mission accomplished." Mcree said.

I sighed, "So this means more training?"

"Oh yeah, big time." Jack said.

"Great." I said sarcastically, before making my way to my room, and Lena followed me in. "You hungry?" She called down to me. "Brayden?" She looked back to see him face down in the couch snoring. "Well gee guess escaping bombs takes a lot out of ya. Goodnight Brayden." She kissed him on the forehead before going to sleep.