I wander around the Overwatch base until I find the kitchen. I hear my stomach growl, which makes me groan. I glance around the kitchen before seeing, who I believe is, Reinhardt, making sandwiches. I smile slightly and make my way over to him. He notices me, quickly greeting me with a smile and friendly 'hello'. He asks if I'm hungry, for which I tell him that I am. He passes me some bread along with materials to make a sandwich.
Once we're done making and eating our sandwiches, I help Reinhardt put the materials away. "So, Ichiro, was it?" He starts, "Are you friends with Genji?"
I smile, "I am, he's the reason I'm here right now."
"Really? How exciting! Who all have you formally met?" He asks meeting my smile.
"Oh, um, I met Jack, Reyes, Jesse, Angela, Ana, and Winston. I saw you and Torbjörn training earlier."
"How nice! I can help show you around there's some more people that I'm sure you would like to meet."
"Alright."
Reinhardt brings me around the base, showing me around as we try to find some of the others. We end up in another training room, though it's set up like an obstacle course. Reinhardt smiles then calls for someone. I hear a whooshing noise just as someone appears in front of us. They have spiky brown hair and a huge grin.
"Lena, I want you to meet Ichiro. He's a friend of Genji." Reinhardt says.
Lena smiles, "Nice to meet you Luv." She excitedly shakes my hand. "Any friend of Genji is a friend of mine!" She grins the seems to blip off somewhere. We soon see her on the obstacle course.
"How can she do that?" I ask Reinhardt.
"The machine on her chest. Winston created it for her, it helps her stay in our time frame as well as allow her to move faster." He replies. I nod and watch her as she seamlessly blinks around the room. It's really impressive and it's such a cool thing to see.
A lady soon walks into the room. She has her hair pulled up into a bun. She has glasses and a blue tank top on. Reinhardt welcomes her warmly, she smiles and says hello back. She sees me and Reinhardt says that I came with Genji. "Oh, another friend from Japan, how nice," she smiles, "I'm Mei-Ling, please just call me Mei."
"It's nice to meet you Mei. I'm Ichiro," I smile back, "and actually I'm from China though moved to Japan when I was relatively young."
"Really? What part?"
"Kunming, my home was relatively close to the Stone Forest."
"I wonder how many dragons you've been able to see, I've heard that you can see them every now and again."
"Ah... n-not exactly... Where are you from?"
"Xi'an."
"I love Xi'an, it's so beautiful. My parents used to take me there when it was smaller. I used to love seeing the sights. That's where a lot of dragons liked to meet."
"Wait, Xi'an smaller? It's been the same size for a while. The older district is still intact but there are a lot of buildings there as well. It's been very modernized for the past century, if my history is correct." She rubs her chin a little. Reinhardt looks from Mei to myself. He was following the conversation though he looks confused.
"What is going on?" He asks politely. I assume that Mei and I must of started speaking in Chinese.
I laugh a little which makes Reinhardt even more confused. "We're just talking about home, Reinhardt. Nothing to worry about," I say. Reinhardt confusion fades and he smiles.
"I'll just leave you both to talk then. I should go talk with Torbjörn, I wanted to help him work on my armor." He leaves us. I look over to Mei who's looking me up and down.
"Who are you really?" She finally asks.
"What do you mean?"
"Your way of speaking, it's... it's different from what my parents taught me, yet it's similar. It's like-"
"An older form? That's because it is..." I sigh, deciding that I should probably tell her before someone else does or something. "Mei, do you believe in the stories of the dragons?"
"What does that have to do with-"
"Just answer the question please."
"When I was younger, now not so much."
"Hm... I see..." Maybe I shouldn't tell her. What's the worst that could happen? Lena blips over to Mei and I.
"What are you two standing around for?" She asks, quickly grabbing Mei's arm. "I'm gonna need to steal her away for a bit, sorry luv."
"It's fine."
Mei looks at me. "We'll talk later," she says before Lena practically drags her away. I watch them go before leaving myself. As I leave the room I see Kazu talking with Ana. I go over to them.
"Hello again Captain Amari. I see you've met my brother." I say smiling.
"Ah, now I see the resemblance." She says meeting my smile. Kazu gives me a look.
I just laugh a little. "It's really hard to miss." She nods and we get to talking. We make some jokes, some of which hurt Kazu's pride a little but I make it better. I tell Ana who all I've meet then remember that I haven't formally meet Torbjörn. I ask Ana where he would be and she points me in the right direction. I say my goodbyes to Ana and tell Kazu to not get into trouble. He simply shrugs the warning off. I leave the two of them and head to a workshop type area.
I enter a room that has assorted armor on the ground and weapons along the walls. I hear two voices, one that I recognize to be my German friend and the other a Swedish man. I follow the voices, quickly running into the two bearded men. Reinhardt sees me then points me out to Torbjörn. "I'm glad you came Ichiro. I was just telling Torbjörn about you." Reinhardt says.
"I hope you were saying good things," I reply smiling as I sit next to the two.
"Oh of course mein friend! What else would I of told him?" I shrug, Reinhardt looks at Torbjörn nodding.
"Oh, um, hello Ichiro, was it? It's nice to meet you. When Rein here was telling me about you I thought of something that might suit you." Torbjörn says as he stands up and makes his way to a wall of weapons. He pulls a weapon off the wall then makes his way back to me. He hands it to me, "I believe that this will suit you well." I look down to the weapon, it's a bow. I look it over, it's one of those new compound bows but it looks and feels handmade. I notice some more traditional engravings on it then notice a word or two in Japanese. I look up to Torbjörn.
"H-How could you possibly of known?" I ask, completely awestruck.
"Just leave this to an expert." He smiles.
I chuckle, "Thank you Torbjörn."
"It's not a problem. Now, why don't we go test it out!" We make our way to the door. Torbjörn grabs a quiver with arrows but I tell him that it won't be necessary. He gives me a weird look but I tell him to trust me. He nods slightly before putting the quiver down. Reinhardt just laughs saying that I'm just full of surprises. I'm so happy to of come to make more friends, I hope Kazu is having as much fun as I am.
