In the Arms of Talon

The gremlin awoke to a bright light shining down upon her awakening face. She squinted at its exposure and tried to use her hand to shield herself from it. She groaned and rolled over, only to find herself on the floor in front of Reaper, Widowmaker, and Sombra.

"H-hey, you! You guys kidnapped me!" She squawked.

"How observant of you," Reaper scoffed.

"But why?" She asked in total curiosity as she completely disregarded her own safety at the moment.

"Because you're 'special' or something," Sombra used her own fingers as quotations, "I dunno, mind explaining, Gabe?"

Reaper growled at the girl for the nickname but continued, "Recently...You've received some improvements…"

"You mean my buff?" She clarified.

"Precisely."

"Okaaay...So what?"

"So, we'd like you to be on our side…"

DVa looked at him in distaste and replied, "What does your 'side' have that mine doesn't?"

"Constant self-loathing..." Widowmaker answered with crossed arms.

"Power…" Reaper answered with a gripped fist.

"Cookies?" Sombra chuckled as she remembered she had just pulled some out of the oven before the mission.

"COOKIES?!" DVa hopped up excited as she realized how hungry she was. She then paused as the thought of her family crossed her mind, "Wait...What about…."

"Your family?" Widowmaker raised a brow; it was as if she could read the girl's eyes, "They're not really your family...they're just people who work for you; Who cater to you like slaves."

"That's not true!"

"Est-ce vrai?"

"Yeah! Whatever that means, Frenchy…"

Widowmaker used every fiber in her body to prevent herself from headshotting the squishy right then and there.

Sombra giggled to herself, she always found it amusing to see Widowmaker get annoyed even in the slightest. She then asked, "So where's our little pet going to sleep?"

"Your room." Reaper responded as he moved into the next room for them to follow him.

"WhAT?" Sombra shouted, "No no no...that's MY area! No one goes in there except for me, me, y yo!"

"You're the only person on this ship who has a pull-out bed in their couch."

"That's not fair! It use to be yours!"

DVa stopped walking and waved her hands halting, "Woah woah woah! Ship? Where are we? The Titanic?"

"Did the Titanic fly?" Sombra rebuked as she led the girl to a window. Hana looked and saw that they were high above the clouds. They were in Talon's black airship that was slowly floating above an unknown location. Her eyes widened and she suddenly felt nauseous.

"I'm gonna be sick…" She informed.

"Scared of heights?" Widowmaker smirked.

"Only when I'm not in my mech…."

Reaper walked up to the seemingly sick child and informed, "Your training begins tomorrow...Sombra will take you to your room."

"MY room, pendejo!" Sombra rebuked to the man who suddenly disappeared into the shadows. She looked back at Hana and sighed, "Let's go…"

The hacker walked the girl down a few hallways, corridors, and bridges just to get to her room. The ship was massive and there were other shady looking people who worked there as well besides the trio.

Upon entering the room, Sombra quickly locked the door behind them and took a deep breath, "First things first, Niña...THIS is MY room, which means you gotta follow MY rules, got it?"

"If I'm going to be sleeping here...shouldn't it be my room too?"

"Do you pay rent?"

"Do you?"

Sombra narrowed her eyes and soon began the tour, "This is the living space...this is my bed...this is your couch-bed…" She then opened a door to another room which held all of her computing equipment and monitors, "...and this area in here is NOT for you! Don't go in there! It's my study where I do all of my work!"

"Woah! Is that a gaming PC?" Hana gasped excitedly as she ran into the forbidden room.

"Don't touch anything!"

Hana sat in the spinning chair and began to look at the equipment. "Woah! You've got a Case NZXT Source 210, Cooling Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, Turbo graphics asus, PSU corsair, the Ripjaws V Series 16 GB, and a Motherboard ASRock Z170 Pro4s?!"

Sombra was about to yell at Hana until she realized that she recognized most of the parts to her computer. She found herself quite speechless and could only reply, "Y...yeah."

"That's so cool! What games do you play?"

Sombra shook off the disbelief and pushed Hana aside in order to shut off her computer, "I don't play games...I work. I'm a hacker."

Hana gasped and suddenly looked rather serious, "A hacker? That's terrible! You make us players with skill look bad…"

The cyberpunk looked up from her keyboard and raised a brow saying, "You know I don't do that kind of hacking...right?"

"But I see the Cheat Engine icon on your desktop…" DVa pointed out.

Sombra spun the girl around so she was facing away from the monitors, "Alright kid, listen up...You and I need to have a talk."

"Okay but first question," DVa raised her hand as if she were a student, "How old are you?"

"30."

DVa let out an ugly laugh, "You're kidding right?! You look like my age!"

"What can I say? Latinas don't crack…" Sombra flipped her hair aside, "But on more pressing matters...I am not here to hurt you...in fact, I wanna be your friend."

"'Friend'?"

"I mean...they're kind of hard to come by up here," She chuckled, "Now Gabe and Widow are gonna try and do things that'll make you...different. I don't want that for you. So I'm gonna help you."

"Why?"

"Because that's what friends are for."

"I just met you…"

"You want my help or not?" Sombra used her hacking glove to pull up holographic pictures that she had retrieved from Hana's social media accounts. There were pictures of Angela and Fareeha at a cafe, pictures of Ana and Reinhardt dancing together at a german pub, Jack watching an American football game with Hana, and Lucio DJing at a club.

Hana looked amongst all the pictures and realized how much she missed her family. She began to tear up and she tried to hug the holograms. When the pictures disappeared, she nodded, "I just wanna go home…"

Sombra actually looked a bit sympathetic for the girl and she nodded, "Alright...well all you gotta do is everything I say...deal?"

"Deal."