Half an hour later inside SC Pandora
"Where could you find this type of ship, its technology is far more advanced than anything that I saw in Overwatch works." Angela asked, "Well, we all got our trump cards, this one is ours, took so much time and effort to re-purpose it to the way we will use it, but it was worth it." said Lucifer smiling, his spirit looked lifted, probably all that sitting around was getting him bored.
Wilhelm hadn't moved since he got into the ship, his eyes were concentrated, but they were staring in the blank space of wall and didn't move, he had been like that for about 5 minutes, but when Althaisa looked more carefully she could see few violet and red sparks running inside his eyes. This made her worried, and so she made her move and sat down next to him. She knew that she shouldn't disturb him when he was in state like that. She sat there and waited.
"What made you so worried?" Wilhelm asked, his eyes still concentrated in the same point, but now they were void of the light flowing through them. "You of course, I still can remember the last time you had been so close to the breaking point, chopped off a hand of one of your pupils, had to spend a lot of resources to get him a new one." Althaisa said, looking into his eyes.
"The way you speak of it almost makes me sad, there is no need to worry, I have something planned into the future and I intend to see becoming a reality." Wilhelm said, now chaining his view to Althaisa and smiling. "I still got plans and I don't intend to go AWOL on you all." As he said this alarm sounded and he stood up, "It is time boys, let's get the music started and get into positions."
"Ay ay captain!" said Mike jumping from his seat and jumping into car, Mikael following suite. "Well I thought why you brought it to here." Said Angela. Wilhelm burst into laugh, "I heard that Althaisa took you for a ride, tho she drives as a sane person in comparison to me" he said this as he sat into his car and revving the engine.
Wilhelm smirked as the compartment's doors lowered, as they were close enough to ground. He sped out of the hangar and drove to the city, meanwhile SC Pandora sped to Gibraltar as they had little time left to get there.
Watchpoint Gibraltar
As they landed they saw bullets flying their way from a guy next to entrance of Watchpoint. "Well, there goes our element of surprise." Said Lucifer completely relaxed and started walking down the ramp pulling out his revolver. Mercy went to stop him, but Althaisa put a hand in her way. "No need, he is more skilled than Wilhelm, he would feel insulted if you stopped him."
Lucifer walked down the ramp and between the ricochets, you could hear one shot of his revolver and then the firing stopped, "Well all is clear. Let's get moving, engage when Lucifer tells you so, I will infiltrate." said Althaisa and then with a shimmer she was gone.
"Common, let's move it people." said Lucifer in the comm. Everyone from Exeeds stood up and looked at Angela, "You heard the senior, go on, I need to observe how to correctly you are commanded." as Angela said this everyone moved out except a guy who wore cape with 'α' as it symbolized that he had been trained by Althaisa, he was the second in chain of command of Exeeds.
"You know that we are only yours to command, if you would say that we need to kill all commanders of 'Fools Hope' we would try to do that, even knowing that we would die doing that." He said and joined his squad that was moving out of hangar.
As they closed to the main chamber they saw Althaisa waiting next to big and opened doors holding finger next to where her lips should be. Then as they got closer she signaled to hold position and after a second, she was gone. After few seconds you could hear loud roar after which, a that a body hit a wall next to them.
One of the Exeeds started to move in, but the Lucifer's hand shot up, signaling that they need to hold position, after a few more seconds they heard shotgun blasts, and as if Lucifer had been waiting for this, he dashed forwards emptying his chamber into the enemy after which he dropped his pistol and took his rifle in hands and deployed portable shield.
As they saw this they were on move and Mercy just saw a glimpse of Reapers silhouette and immediately understood who it was. Her unit was already in positions having deployed shields of their own shooting at Reaper, but he looked like he didn't even feel bullets impacting him. After a second, they stooped shooting, and everyone heard hear clicks of Reapers shotguns meaning that he was just dry of ammo.
As he dropped his shotguns he didn't have a time to pull a new ones as a grenade fell from top, room was now lit with dark green light in which the grenade could be easily seen, Reaper leaped to the side behind the desk covering himself form explosion, as the smoke settled you could see that Reaper had already been pulled into CQC with Althaisa, Lucifer and Thanatos.
To give credit where it is due Reaper was doing great, only every third hit was connecting, but then Thanatos scythe cough into something and threw that across the room, as it landed next to Winston that had just got back to his feet. He took the thing in his hands and as Angela wanted to warn her comrades, they had already jumped backwards.
Winston squeezed the trigger on his Tesla Cannon and arc of electricity went off, and as the arc connected to Reapers body, it disintegrated in an instant, Angela wanted to scream as she understood that Reaper was her friend, Gabriel Reyes. But as the Reaper faded away Winston jumped to the side of Althaisa
"What did you do to the Athena?" He grunted in anger. "I saved her" She said moving hear head closer to the Winston, "She is isolated, and the virus is destroyed, you could say thanks for that", she moved away from him and a disk like figure flew into her hands, lights went form dark green to normal.
"All systems restored" Chimed Athena's voice, "Athena look for intrusions and missing or copied files" growled Winston as he moved to the side of stairs, "Winston, my old friend" Angela said moving in the front of her warriors, who stepped to sides slowly bowing their heads.
"Angela, it is so nice to see you." Said Winston turning around to face Mercy, but she gestured to his room upstairs, "A bit of privacy would be welcome as we have a lot to talk" she said with a genuine smile across her face. They slowly moved up the stairs giving each other a hug, that would seem difficult as her frame looked so fragile.
While they were moving upwards, a second in command of Exeeds gave order to secure the perimeter, as he himself sat at the base of stairs and lit up a cigarette, everyone understood that he won't let anyone disturb old friend reunion till the moment Angela would allow it. Last thing everyone could hear, was Winston saying that he had heard interesting news about someone trying to revive Overwatch.
As they went up and saw the computer screen had opened all the tabs that had been previously interrupted, and in the middle of them all was one that read "INITIATE OVERWATCH RECALL?". "Yes, I have been given offer of renewing it, and in this time of darkness, I feel like people have been desperate for at least a beam of sunlight. A ray of hope that could come if WE would give them that chance." She smiled slowly closing her eyes and nodding putting her hand on his shoulder.
As Angela said this, Winston closed his eyes and remembered words of his Father had told him when he was still little "Never accept the world as it appears to be, dare to see it for what it could be", he smiled and pressed "Y". "Establishing agent connection" chimed Athena.
Kings Row
"Winston, is that you love, it's been too long" happily chirped Lena, "Yes. Yes, it has, and I have a friend here." Said Winston, "Hello there Lena, I hope you have been well" happily said Angela. "Doc, are you there too, I haven't heard form you in ages." Tracer said. "I'm sorry to cut this so short, but Mondatta will be giving speech in second, I'll call you back just after it, I promise." She said as he heard Winston say that he still needs to catch up to Angela and will be waiting for the call.
As she closed the link she moved towards crowd where speech should start shortly at the same time.
At the same nearing King's Row.
Wilhelm sped through seemingly empty night streets of London, even when there was time of peace, people of United Kingdom still felt fear of ever looming presence of Omnics, that had been their arch enemy, that almost ended their existence.
"This looks like a good place to provide sniper coverage" he said to Mike he just smiled behind his helmet and took a case that housed his rifle, as the car screeched to halt. "I'll be up there in a minute and will provide overwatch and keep you posted, tho if I recall correctly I can't kill that bitch.", "Yes, you can't kill her, I have plans set up for her, but hitting her in a leg with TRNA round would be just welcomed." Wilhelm said, and Mike could feel him grinning as he said the last part.
Mike used his specifically modified set of armor to traverse the side of the large building having a great sight line to Kings row and its rooftops as the new Lucifer sped to the Kings Row.
"I'm sorry Mikael you'll need to sit this one out, I took you here not really thinking about how you would be useful, so stay in the car and keep it safe, don't let people near it as we will need to get away fast, also it would be help full that you would turn it around for easier get away" Wilhelm said. "Wilco" came the answer.
Wilhelm sped through the night city, only few slow mowing cars in his way that he easily evaded, as every second was of importance. He knew that Mike was far away from the point of interest, but he knew, that for one of the 4 original commanders, distance like that wouldn't be problem as he used one of the toys brought back by Lucifer himself from a realm that was counted as possible future of this world.
As he continued turning tight corners of streets that had been built for flying cars that wouldn't even drive close to the speed he was moving right now, he got first words from Mike, "I can see that bitch fighting some girl in yellow spandex.", he smiled to himself continuing concentrating to road, knowing that the moment of truth will come shortly.
"There is an explosion on the roof" Mike said though comms, and as he heard that he saw turning next corner, a sea of people and knew this was the moment that he had been waiting for months. He turned the car sideways grinding it to the halt, as it stopped he jumped out of it and started running, some people now turning and seeing him running their way stepped back, as Lucifer was now manifesting his powers.
A dark aura surrounded him, seeming like thick black smoke, like shadows were seeping from under his armor plates. This aura started to manifest on his back. He looked at the roof top in the distance and saw Widowmaker's finger pressing down on the trigger. His sword emanated a violet light, as red and violet arcs of electricity like energy were cast form it. He started to see flash of fire from Widow's rifle as the world seemed to stop for a second and feeling this surge of great power he dashed leaving a small trail of shadows behind him.
The shadows on his back had manifested into a some type of feathery wings, the type you would see on Angel of Death, but that didn't faze Lucifer even a little, bit he had accepted this fate, a fate of someone that would bring sorrow and death in his path, but this time, this time was different, he was using this power for something more than himself, for something greater that his own benefit. He dashed as he felt that the precious milliseconds of time were slipping from his grasp. He could see bullet coming straight for Mondatta's chest.
He couldn't be too late, he just couldn't everything else should be going by the plan, the Althaisa and Lucifer should now be at Gibraltar waiting for him to come back, having saved this spiritualist, and having earned the trust of Tracer even before removing his mask, he has to save this robot, but he saw as he couldn't beat the bullet in speed, while part of his concentration had to be used to control his powers, but as he was just 10 feet away from Mondatta, the bullet was only an inch from his chest.
His last thought of true sanity was that of his friends, he knew that accepting the power deep within him will slowly destroy him and he was sacrificing, most of his possible lifetime, but he had to do this, the weight of so many people, even those that hadn't been born yet, was on his shoulders, he had seen what will happen if he failed at this moment, as how many lives were at stake on this one choice and how many will be save by catching this bullet, but he knew the risks, risks of the darkens that was living inside of him, inside the poor souls that hadn't been given their choice of afterlife, as he had consumed them.
As he thought of that, he let himself be pulled in to the abyss of this dark, corrupting power. He dashed seeing bullet almost impacting the chest of this preacher of peace. And as he had just grabbed the bullet he let the time run its normal path. His wingspan now had reached 24 feet and he was just standing there in front of this Omnic that had already accepted his fate, but now he was surprised as he was very clearly alive.
"Your Guards are fucking armatures, they should have covered you with their lives" Lucifer said, his voice now void of any amount of emotion, and his voice echoed, sounding like he was speaking form everywhere at once, even inside of everyone that heard him. "Take this a reminder that, even the ones that would be call forsaken can see a just cause, and that those who can't" He looked behind him where he knew Tracer was having her duel with Widow, "will always try to sabotage it." As he said this he laid the bullet that now had carving in it "Remember, the Shadows will protect you". As he turned he saw Mondatta's bodyguards going for their pistols, but one glance form Lucifer made them drop their intentions and stand there dumbfounded.
He ran forward to the place where the duel should be culminating, and as he got up to roof he saw Widow getting into the aircraft that was waiting for her. "Shoot" came the echoing voice of Lucifer through comm and one shot rang through the night, this time it was far away, but the rifles booming sound carried through the air, deafening everyone that was still looking at the now disappearing Angel of Death.
Lucifer saw as one of the Widowmaker's legs gave out under her form under her as she stood up on the cargo bay doors, she fell with ear piercing scream as she clutched her leg, that was missing a large portion of its muscle. But he didn't give a shit about her, at least not at this point, he knew she would survive this. He walked to the edge of the building where he saw Lena struggling though pain, even now he felt like he disliked her, but the sudden humanity in him diminished, as a feel of cold nothingness replaced it.
He jumped down next to her looking at her spasming form, he could see in his radar that Mike was already moving to his position, as he inspected Tracer he saw that his worries were correct, by him removing Mondatta's death from this fight, Widow had broken her Tracers chronical accelerator, and it was now failing, in place of it just malfunctioning like it would in a normal time line.
He closed his eyes and felt Tracer fading away, "No, no, no, no" she cried, but as she started to slip into the different dimension Lucifer focused on her, surrounding her with dark aura, stabilizing her existence in this realm.
"What!" she exclaimed, "What is this" she said as he tried to brush off the shadows that surrounded her. "Stop, fighting, or do you want to vanish form this world like you did last time" Lucifer said, his voice echoing into her head, she turned around to see this form that was made from almost pure darkness, with wings now returning into his armor. "What are you?" She asked slowly backing away, "So many questions, and none of them are of use, I'm the one who did job that you should have done, I was the one who stopped the bullet that would have killed Mondatta. Now remove the accelerator from yourself, I shall anchor you to this realm, and I would suggest you listen, as I don't have enough power to do it for too long." Lucifer calmly, his voice dark and echoing, but surprisingly truthful and compelling.
She slowly removed her accelerator, gasping as few of her ribs were probably broken. As she did that, Mike landed next to them. "Come Agent Oxton we don't have much time" He said taking Accelerator from her arms and jumping back up the building. Before she could say anything, Lucifer was at her side, there was numbing sensation around her bruised ribs and the pain went away, "That is just a patch work we shall take care of you when we will be at Gibraltar." Lucifer said as he wrapped his arm around her and jumped to the top of the building, leaving Tracer stunned. No man could do such feat, but she felt Lucifer's aura somewhat recognizable. As they had landed Lucifer made another jump next to the car that Mike was already opening doors.
They put still stunned Lena in the front seat, Lucifer sat at the wheel and Mike in the back with his rifle and Mikael. As they sped forward away from Kings Row they could hear sirens of police incoming, "How we will get away, more importantly how do you think we will get to Winston, and how do you even know about Gibraltar?" Lena asked in despair. "Still so many questions and still none of them are of use. At the least some things won't change" Said Lucifer as his helmet retracted showing his face, now with permanent eyes of darkness some shadows streaking and moving around his face. "Wilhelm?" Lena called as his eyes darkened and she felt a moment of weightlessness and the car came to a halt. As she looked around she instantly recognized Winston's Laboratory, but there were instantly guns all around them, trained on them, but in a second, they lowered, as she looked around she saw a guy sitting on stairs still smoking looking undisturbed, two uneasy faces of people she didn't know and an entity with wings.
As she looked further she saw what she was looking for, her good old friend Winston. As she opened doors she already saw a man that had taken her accelerator jump up to Winston, from whose back came out Mercy, that she had already guessed was there, as she had been on the same channel as Winston. What surprised her, was the fact that Angela put a hand of shoulder of Winston who had already donned his armor and at this moment was ready to jump in action. As well fact that Mike gave accelerator to Doctor, not the Scientist. But it was instantly understandable as she could understand that Angela knew this guy.
"Common, get to Winston, I'll stay here for now it will be easier to concentrate like that." Wilhelm said. As she got out of the car she looked around seeing a woman around the same age as she was, and an old gentleman in armor getting in a stance ready to fight, the guy that wasn't disturbed by their entrance now had his hand on gun and looked on edge.
"It is okay everyone, I can control it, at least for now, as I said before, I still have plans that I need to carry out before I'm sunken into madness." At this point she understood that this wasn't the same young and childish Wilhelm she had found on the street, bleeding out.
Well as of today I will try to put at least few ours a week into continuing this story. There will be still few more chapters of this story, but I feel like I need a new start, so I will end it a bit faster than originally planned.
After it will be do I will start making a Mass Effect fiction that will go off canon as there will be Fool's Hope involvement in it as well as it will be set in the same universe as this fiction.
