Sorry it took me a while. Distractions these day can really last long. So without further adieu here's the next chapter
(Rebels HQ, Brazil) December 5 3:34pm 1st POV
It's been a few days after Tracer and I met the rebels. It's been a bit tense while we were here, the reason why is while the civilian are happy to have met and work with Tracer , when they met me word between us haven't been to most friendly of introduction. The first thing one of the soldiers said was "why is there a kid trying to play dress up?" Needless to say thing didn't go exactly as I would hope.
Dante and Lucio are really the only people in this place that I can actually interact without problem. Right now we're trying to figure out a way to bring down Vishkar, thanks to Dante's hacking skills and combined with Artemis we're able to see what's inside their building. I guess hacking into security cameras is just as easy as hacking into peoples email. I was wearing my normal hero attire while standing next to Dante in the computer room. I had Artemis help them out, she was even able to make a digital body, think of her looks as a yellow glowing Cortana from halo 4 only with longer hair and her end come out curled than straight.
"So right now this is a live feed?" I asked. Watching multiple screens play, right now I'm counting 44 security camera. in 22 different screens.
"So far yeah. What your seeing right now is a almost every security camera inside the building." Dante answered, but what he said got my attention.
"Wait "almost"? The building only has about 20 floors at most." I looked at the raven haired man confusingly. That's when Artemis popped out in one of the screens.
"Yes but, strangely I've found a backdoor to their system. It's incredibly complex, not like an A.I. protecting it but their fire wall is strongly defensive." Artemis explained. Oh, So that's it.
"And you two are trying to break through their defense. How's that going so far?" I asked. My partial answer was Dante face planting his head on the keyboard. "That bad huh?"
"The system has some kind of electronic blocker, any time I in close theirs a new wall we need to break into. You want to know how many walls we've broken so far?" He asked. For some reason I'm hearing Ryan Reynolds play as Deadpool in my head...good movie.
"I'm going to say from the top of my head. 20?" I asked.
"Try 200." Dante said in a dreaded tone. "If it wasn't for Artemis I would've been here a lot longer."
"Benefits for being an A.I." Artemis said, I could here a sense of smugness in her tone.
"Boy you could almost hear the amount of pride from her voice." I heard Dante muttered, I let out a small chuckle which earned a pointed from Artemis. "By the way I made something for you that could really help." He said he flicked it with his thumb, to which I easily caught it. The object was only the size of a penny and hexagonal.
"And this is?" I asked.
"I'm sure you've seen the first Avengers movie?" Dante asked. I nodded. "Well this is a miniature hacking chip. With the help of your A.I. we're able to make a direct link to their system with them noticing. Just place it right on their terminal and let the magic happen." Dante explained.
"Cool. I've been needing a new toy in the arsenal." I pocketed the device as i sat down on a chair near by, minutes went by watching him and Artemis hacking into each fire wall they've come across. Each one looked more irritating than the last.
"How many this time Artemis?"
"25."
"Argh, this is getting us nowhere, we'll bust down a thousand wall if we can and it still won't let us in any closer than it should." Dante grumbled. That's when an idea crossed my mind.
"Have you tried finding a pattern through each wall. If, their not being constructed randomly then maybe you could find a way to break each wall without the twice the effort." I suggested.
"I'll see what I can do. This will take time to develop." Artemis said. I looked over the screens and saw two people talking in what I think is an executive office.
"Quick question, do the cameras there have any audio tapes?" I asked.
"I pretty sure. Why do you ask?"
"Can you put camera 32? It's the one with the two people talking to each other." After a quick typing session the screen I talked about enlarged and the audio was on.
"I assure mayor that the issue with the rebels will be dealt with." A man said.
"It better be, we are having riot going around the Favela, and there was also a story about a man that stole one of your own sonic technology to use against you. Tell me how far have you found the thief?" They must be talking about Lucio's sonic amplifier. A woman said talking over a holo-communicator to a man and woman.
"We are still looking for the culprit nonetheless. We are calling for additional support to deal with the problem. Rest assure the situation we be dealt with." The man said.
"For your sake I hope." With that the call was canceled. There was a moment of silence in the room before a long sigh was exhaled.
"Are we any closer in finding the agents?" The man asked. He asked a woman. And there she was Symmetra one of the characters of the game.
"Nothing yet sir but we are looking for them. They are Overwatch agent sir, anything they do will be consider a act against the law and they will be prosecuted." Symmetra explained. So now they're looking for us.
"I understand you're distress, but what we're doing is for the order of this world." Oh great one these guys. "Keep me posted on any findings Satya, dismissed." With that Symmetra walked out the room and the screen minimized.
"So I guess we're lucky that we've found you otherwise they'll turn you two over to the police." Dante commented.
"I don't think that was case. The boss never said anything about us when he was talking to the Mayor, only to Symmetra. So maybe they're looking for us in a different way." I theorized.
"Maybe, but we won;t know unless you and Tracer go there your selves." I don't know if he was joking about that but the idea wasn't bad nonetheless.
"Good idea. Could use the hacking chip since it's with me. I'll let Tracer know, keeps your comms link to mine. Artemis you stick with Dante!" I exclaimed while walking out the room.
"You got it!"
"W-wa-wait, wait! I was just joking. It's really not a good idea to storm the fortress so early!" I heard Dante yell. But I kept on walking, beside what we're doing isn't really storming the fort, but more like sneaking in with the troops. I just hope we can do this without causing suspicion.
(Vishkar corporation, Brazil) December 5 4:45pm 3rd POV
"And we have found nothing?" Sonjay questioned a security personnel.
"None yet sir, Satya is using every video cam online to spot them but no leads have turned up yet." The man said.
"I see carry on." The supervisor dismissed the security. In his mind, Sonjay was already wondering his next plan, should he cal for a wide search around the Favela, let the government know and let them deal with it. He needed a solution and quick before-
*BEEEP* The sound of the intercom broke his focus. "Yes." He answered.
"Uh sir you have visitors." An attendant replied.
"Inform them that do not want to be disturbed." Sonjay answered.
"Sir the company...is has a more important reference." Slightly annoyed by the the front desk persistence he turn on the security cameras in his office connecting to the main entrance. He was shocked to see the two people he was looking for were waiting right in the lobby.
"Send them up." He said. While in the lobby Tracer and Spark were given clearance to enter the elevator.
"You sure this is a good idea love?" Tracer asked.
"Not a 100 percent, but it's close. Trust me." Spark replied. The brunette gave a small nod as they rode the elevator upward. Tracer just stared at the electrokinetic, she does trust him but from the moment they met she always felt Jason was hiding something from her. She could always see it when she talks to him about his past, his family, his life before he became a hero. As much as she wanted to talk to him about it, this was something Spark had to explain himself or if someone blurt out the secret themselves. Her previous thoughts were snapped out when the elevator signaled their floor, and with a crack of her next she walked along side with Spark.
Said hero was going over his own plan, you see he never did tell her why they were looking for her because he didn't know either. So far there were four likely scenario of what might happen;
1: It was a trap set by the govern official to apprehend us and Vishkar were working along side them, best case solution surrender easily bring them in false sense of security then escape.
2: Talon was working with Vishkar all along and set up a trap to both capture and kill us, best solution fight our way out and go in to hiding.
3: Vishkar set up a trap to take us out in order to weaken the rebels, best solution repeat solution 2.
Lastly 4: Vishkar require their assistance in order to stop the rebels, they have no idea we already are working with them and have no idea about us hacking them. Best solution wing it.
So out of 4 of those scenario 3 of them results in Tracer and himself fighting someone, and only one of them he might have a good chance to finally know Vishkar's secrets without confrontation. Now he really wished he brought a coin for luck. Show time. He thought as he stepped through the double doors already facing the light tan skinned man short hair and wearing standard Vishkar uniform(1).
"Ah agent Tracer and agent Spark, we of Vishkar welcome you to Brazil." Sonjay greeted with a hand stretched out to which both agent politely grasped.
"Well once we heard that your men were out in the city and Favela looking for us, we just had to see why you needed our audience." Spark explained. He was cautious of this man, while his whole face shows trust and kindness, his speech from the cameras show arrogance and obsessive amount of forced control and order, almost as if he need it in order to stay sane.
"Ah yes, allow me to explain." He typed over a few keys and on a nearby wall a screen popped open, the screen showed 3-D schematic and charts spread out. "Vishkar corporation is a multinational corporate entity, after the Omnic Crisis 10 years ago Vishkar began their reconstruction, using new self-sustaining cities all across India, we have trying to spread our economy across the globe our first stop being Brazil. However-
"You know for a guy that suppose to be some kind CEO of the place, your really not living up to your title." Spark interrupted.
"I'm sorry?" Sonjay questioned.
"We honestly don't really care what you guy do." Spark replied.
"We're trying to find out the reason you and your men are looking for us." Tracer added. "The flair of dramatic are best left for the bad guys love."
Agitated for being interrupted Sonjay silently took a small breath and gave the two and calm smile. "Apologies, then us cut right to the chase as you american say it. We need your help into finding these rebels and put a stop to them. We were nearly close in to perfecting their homes but were force to leave after a someone stole our prototype sonic weaponry. Will you hep us?" He asked. There was a brief moment of silence before Tracer looked as if she wanted to say something, but before she could reveal her answer a hand covered her mouth.
"Mind giving a few minutes to talk it over?" Spark asked, earning a confused looked from the agent and minuscule irritated looked from the negotiator but was able to quickly return to his previous expression.
"Of course, take as much time as you need."
"Give us five minutes will you. Privately." With that Sonjay walked out the room leaving the two alone. Tracer then smacked the electorkinetic's hand from her mouth and gave a heated look. "Look before you chew me out, I needed him out of the room if we answered to quickly it'd make it seem we know something they don't."
"And the reason you didn't tell me about this plan of your is...?"
"Truthfully I was winging it along the way." That earned a shocked look from the time manipulator.
"What?! I thought you knew why they were looking for us?!" Tracer questioned. "But that still doesn't explain we can't just say no."
"Because one of needs to stay here." Spark pressed a button in his to open the comms link. "Dante your hearing us?"
"Loud and clear, and let me just say that you guys look lovely at this angle. The comms triple encrypted they won't know who's calling." Said Dante.
"Great, speaking of encryption, you two were able to break open the wall?" Jason asked.
"Well there's good news and there's bad news. Take your pick."
"Well I do like my desert first." Spark quipped.
"Well you were right when you said that there was a pattern to each fire wall. Artemis was able to create a program to break each wall with a simple equation." Dante informed.
"Sound great, so what's the veggies?" Tracer asked.
"The bad news is, hacking in to their back door will require direct access to their server. Without it hacking into their direct systems will create a military grade breach on ours and then they'll be able to trace it back to us." Artemis explained. Jason pondered on his next play.
There was a small smirk spread across Jason's face as an idea popped in his head. "Alright here's the plan."
Outside Sonjay's office was waiting outside the door counting the seconds that went by. He heard the elevator behind open and saw Satya walk in the hall way. "Commander I didn't expect you to be here."
"Ah hello Satya welcome." Sonjay greeted. "We just have some guest discussing amongst themselves. They only have 1 minute and 11 second to go." He said gazing at his watch.
"And who are our guest, may I ask?" Asked Symmetra.
"The same people we were looking for." Before the agent could even respond, there was a sound of a violent discussion. That is when the office doors slam open and Tracer was stomping her way out. "And I believe they've just finished."
"I can't believe you would just accepts something like this!" Tracer exclaimed.
"Look I know what I said was a bit out of line..."
"Over the line!"
"Okay over the line but we can get anywhere without some kind of profit!" Spark argued. Tracer still marched her way towards the elevator and past Sonjay and Satya.
"So then your idea as a profit is to just accept any deal they have. Because it's easy?!"
"Well considering that no one else is going to pay for out equipment?" Spark returned. "I mean who are we going to turn to the government, we're wanted by them. Talon seems to have friends in high places why can't we?!"
"Because we don't work with people we don't know." Lena said firmly. "Overwatch was meant to help people, not work for someone to take innocent people out."
"Oh I'm sure that kind of thinking went well for Jack before that kind of-! *SLAP* Jason's rant was cut off by a swift slap across the face. Tracer stared at the hero with a hateful glare with tears brimming in her eyes, ignoring the slight pain in her hand.
"Don't you dare use his name like that. Don't you ever think you that you can use his name!" She yelled. With that the time jumper entered the elevator and the group watched it close in silence. After a few moments of silence Jason released a long sigh, grabbing the attention of the two Vishkar operatives.
"Well I can see that fight won't go away for a while." Spark muttered.
"I'm sorry to here about your recent dilemma." Sonjay commented.
"Don't be, Tracer just lived in a world where she can think hero should follow some kind of guide line. No matter her service during or after the Ominc crisis time will always change. But enough about that, you said that you needed our help with something?" Spark questioned.
"Ah yeah allow me to introduce out field agent Satya Vaswani, she also happens to be one of the corporations Architech." Sonjay introduced. Spark shook her hand and the three walked in the room discussing their terms. An hour later Sonjay and Symmetra were already showing the facility to Spark, from the bottom up.
"Sonjay, if it alright with you, I can show Spark around the building. I'm sure you have another meeting to commence." Symmetra commented, earning a confused look from said hero.
"Are you sure Satya? I am more than happy to show our friend around the facility." Sonjay questioned. But before the mocha skinned woman could answered Saprk intervened.
"Actually I wouldn't mind getting the chance to know her. If I am going to be a part of this corporation then at least I should at least get to know their employees." Jason commented. He didn't understand why he said that but for some reason there was a trusting atmosphere around her.
"Well if you two believe so. It's best I return to my quarters. Have a nice a night to to the both of you, I'll see you in the morning." With that Sonjay left them alone in the hallway. It wasn't a second after Sonjay vanished from sight Satya grabbed Jason by the collar of his suit and drag to a near by broom closet, threw him inside and close the door behind her.
"You know a simple follow me would've really been appreciated." The electrokinetic groaned out as he stood back up. But was then face to face with a pointed look from the Vishkar agent. "What?"
"I need to know the truth and you somehow are my key into finding it."
I don't know whether to take it as a compliment or a threat. Jason thought. The surprise statement caught the young man off guard but because of hes mask she could not see his expression. "What do you mean by that exactly? Truth on what?"
"I know you do not believe Sonjay on his goal for the Favela, over the past few months there was something I cannot see but I could feel it. And I know you have the answers." Symmetra said sternly, Jason wanted nothing more than to deny her claims but, one look of her eyes show conviction, a true moral of justice and control. It was only a few seconds of staring between the two before Spark broke away first.
"I need you show me your server room. Anything that connects to Vishkar would be in their right?" Jason asked.
"Follow me." The Indian woman said, after a series of floors and stair cases Symmetra showed Spark a door showing their server room. "Fifth row second terminal."
"Dante can you see me?"
"Crystal clear. You do know Symmetra is right behind you right?" Asked Dante.
"Yeah I do, turns out she had her suspicion on Vishkar too. How's Tracer by the way?"
"Well the weird thing is when she left Trace was followed by Vishkar operatives, I'm guessing since they couldn't have her no one should. She was able to give them the slip before coming here. But we can talk about that later, you've found the terminal?" Spark placed the hacking chip on top. "There we are back doors fully open...wow that can not sound any more dirty than it should."
"Focus. Did you find anything?"
"..." There was a moment of silence in the comms.
"Dante?...Artemis?"
"Is something wrong?" Symmetra asked. Spark nearly forgot that she was here in the first place.
"No idea. Guys do you read me?"
"...You're gonna want to see this. You near by a computer?" Dante asked.
"Uhh...Symmetra you know where I can find a CPU?" Asked Spark. He answer was the woman pulled out a hidden laptop from the terminal. "That'll work. Artemis think you can connect me?"
"Already done." As the screen turned on, there was a fast flash through of file entering the screen until it stopped on one the file was labeled project hydra, but what grabbed the hero's attention was the symbol attached on the corner of the file. A old Blackwatch symbol, Talon.
"What is that symbol?"
"That is Blackwatch. Is was supposed to be decommissioned along with Overwatch after the UN found allegation of deep corruption, weapons profiling, assassination etc. They were suppose to be long gone after Overwatch, but as it turns out they've been working with Talon the entire time." Spark explained to Satay.
"Talon?" She questioend.
"A secret terrorist group, that's been trying to cause a second Omnic crisis not too long ago. Dante what Project: Hydra? And why are we seeing this through Vishkar's back door?"
"This project was funding and held by Vishkar themselves, the true reason for this expansion over the Favela wasn't so the people can get new homes it was to create more room for their project. Which sadly I can;t get in without days of hacking in. Even with Artemis help." Dante answered.
"It still doesn't explain why this has to do with Spark." Symmetra questioned.
"It's because this project was one of Talon's latest. It was reported around this year. Around the same time Mondata was saved too." Artemis added. Spark gained a shocked look, while it could be a coincidence that a project would be publish on that day, everything that follow after gave it too many signs to follow. This too is connected.
"Where is Project Hydra now?" Jason asked.
"That is the fun part. On the report we've found it's location placed here." The blood user said surprising both Satya and Jason. "Yeah I got the reaction too. The report stated that they placed Hydra in Brazil a few days ago. And it's carrier was too a wouldn't you guessed it Vishkar Corporation."
"When was this shipment made?" Symmetra asked.
"Uhh, five days agos. Why?"
"Around that time there was a report for an imcoming shipment from India. I thought it was building supplies but the weight was nearly double from it regular amount. I thought it was just a surplus so we wont ask for more next month." Satya explained.
"That's as close to as a clue we can get. We'll let you know if anything turns up. Until then wait for our call." Jason hanged up and looked at the Vishkar agent. "You ready?"
"For the sake order it self lead the way."
Well I hope you guys enjoyed today's chapter. Because to day I am glad to say that this story has reached over the 100 review mark and made over 20,000 views. This is my first story to reach this amount and I am so glad that people like it. Now on to a much needed profile on one of the OC hero's
Hero Name: The Alchemist
Real Name: Mark Mustang (Age: 21 Height: 6'1 Weight:180lbs)
App: Hair is Black with some Grey stripes showing up, sort of spiky hair. When he is in battle he wears a coat similar to Strike Commander Morrison, but in greyish color and armor plates inside the coat. Underneath he wears a black tac vest with lots of pockets in which he carries ammo and other trinkets. He removes his coat when he wants to fight seriously due to the armor weighing him down, the vest offers no protection but gives him more mobility. Also wears black cargo pants with black combat boots. In his lab he wears typical scientist garbs.
Power: Has special gloves that with a snap of his fingers light anything on fire or simply explode them. The range on them is from area around him to where his eyesight ends, but the further a target the harder it is to control the flame. Can also heal his teammates with the gloves and revive them, he rubs his hands together and places his hands on the injured or downed teammate, but he cant heal himself. His revive skill isnt as good as Mercy's, it revives but doesnt fully heal. The gloves also have limited charges, he can revive 3 people and half heal them but the gloves turn to ash after that, he can explode around 2 small houses before the glove deteriorate. Mark always carries 3 pairs of gloves but before he can use the next pair, he requires a 10 min cooldown or the gloves will draw too much energy from his body. The gloves themselves are black with red alchemic symbols all over them.
Skills: Mark is proficient in CQC, and an excellent marksman with guns as well. He carries 2 pistols that fire in semi or auto, and a foldable sniper rifle in his back for long range assassinations, Mark's markmanship is just below Widowmaker's.
His: Mark is considered one of the last alchemists in the world and thus closely guards all his work. In his lab he is always experimenting on new forms of alchemy and trying to improve his gloves. He joined overwatch on the final days of the first omnic crisis and was still new when Overwatch was disbanded, but he always worked with Winston on various projects. Mark has a fiancee, who he loves to death, that occasionally helps him but isnt really part of Overwatch. Misato, his fiancee, is the one who taught him how use guns, meaning she is a better marksman than him, and she is on par with Widowmaker.
Now don't worry Mark will have his screen time the same goes for his wife. This hero was brought up by Asleep12hrs. And on another note there is a new poll is up. and I want you honest opinion. This is OCmaniac signing off.
