Lena was sitting at Chloe's funeral, she didn't know why her parents had paid for the whole thing, completely denying any funds from the government. But she guessed that it was a decision made in grief.
Lena desperately wanted to talk to them and her parents as well, but she was chosen to be a pallbearer. So she was sectioned off with the others, she didn't know most of them too well.
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After the service was over Lena helped the other pallbearers with the coffin and they all went up to the town's local cemetery where a burial service took place. Upon arrival, The Jones's were greeted by several people in military formal wear and they were carted off somewhere. But as soon as they returned, they were looking pretty down and they lead the procession up to the mausoleum where Chloe would be for the rest of time.
Lena followed along carrying the casket with the other bearers and they finally rested it on a shelf with all the others and a priest started to rattle off prayers and after a few minuets they were all out and they were allowed to leave. Lena tried to just head back to her rental car that she had driven there, but she was tapped on the shoulder by someone behind her. As she turned around, she was met with a hit to the face. She didn't see who it was from, but she staggered off a few feet away and she heard who ever had hit her coming for round two.
She dodged the second swing and she hit him on a pressure point on his shoulder and he was knocked out. She turned the person's body around and there she saw Mr. Jones. Mrs. Jones came up behind Lena and she looked down at her husband's sleeping form. Lena muttered an apology and she quickly left.
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Joe was in a mad pursuit of the drop ship. It was flying fairly close to the ground and by the time Joe had caught up to it the streets had vacated, so Joe had no need to negotiate traffic. He was telling Vigor over the phone to find the straightest road that she could and to just keep driving.
Eventually they came to a five hundred yard stretch and Joe floored it. He took the assault rifle he got from the Talon grunt he was with and he propped it up between the drivers seat and the gas pedal. Once it was in place he opened the driver's side door and he climbed onto the roof of the car.
He saw what looked like a maintenance ladder that was built into the ship and he jumped for it. He just barely caught the bottom rung and he began to climb up the ladder until he reached a hatch that was at the top. He opened it up and he dropped into a vent. He crawled through it until he reached what looked like the seating area of the ship. There he saw a woman sitting in a seat cleaning some sort of sniper rifle through a grate.
Joe drew his pistol and he pulled the slide. He then punched the grate and he dropped down. But as soon ass he was down he heard a noise and he fell unconscious.
"Armature." Ana said as she got up from her seat, reloading her sleep dart. She tied him up and sat him down on one of the seats in the room and she told Soldier 76, who was piloting the ship, what had happened.
He nodded and they withdrew from the chase.
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Joe woke up in a daze, he blinked a few times to get used to the light and he looked around. His hands were handcuffed behind him on the chair he was sitting on. He was locked in what looked like a makeshift cell. He looked around for any escape options but he didn't see any.
He looked out a small window that was barred closed and he saw that it was night time where ever he was. He thought he heard voices coming towards him and he looked over to the doorway. The old wooden door opened and he saw none other than Soldier 76 standing there with someone standing behind him.
"Hello there." Joe said, smiling a little. "Hello, glad to see you're finally awake. We would like to ask you some questions Rhody." Soldier said calmly as he and the other person brought in chairs and sat across from him.
"well, shoot." Joe said. "What are you doing with Talon? From our intel, you owe your allegiance to Overwatch." the woman asked. "Well, I was paying a debt. Plus, I wanted to experience the thrill, for the kill." Joe said. Soldier and Ana looked at themselves confused and Ana nodded. "So, you did it to pay a debt. Who do you owe it to?" Soldier asked. "Well, I'm not too sure to tell you the truth, but I suspect it might be a guy named Jake, but I'm not too sure." Joe said calmly, he had figured it was Jake, just from the way the man had been acting, but he desperately wanted that notion to be false.
The two former commanders left and Joe was left alone. He waited for their footsteps to go out of his hearing range and he began to work on his handcuffs. Just form the feel of them, he figured that they were pretty cheap, so he used his enhanced strength to pull them apart. He eventually broke the chain and to his surprise it was quite silent, so, he moved over to the window, which he figured he could crawl through.
SO, he pried off the bars one by one and he wiggled through. When he got through he dropped a few feet onto a sidewalk. He got up, rubbing his head slightly and he looked around. He was in an alley, pretty deep it seemed. He heard cars to his right a few hundred yards away and he started to go towards them.
He made it to the end of the alley without much incident and he looked back to where he came out. As he was about to face the street, which looked like a fairly busy intersection in a sort of Chinatown, he saw a red line poking out of the window he came from and Joe recognized it as Soldier's visor. He then started to run as a door to his right burst open.
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Winston, Tracer, and Zoe were all in the command room watching a monitor. It was showing what had went down in Seattle the day before and they were watching the local news report on it.
"And eye-witness reports report that this man, was seen climbing out of a car that was following the aircraft and he is reported jumping onto the side and through what looks like a maintenance hatch at the top of the craft. There is speculation that the ship belongs to the former Overwatch pilot, Lena Oxton, otherwise known as Tracer, who rose to prominence after her role in quelling the King's Row Uprising. And as of this report, the CIA has launched an investigation into the matter. Back to you John." the reporter said, meanwhile, pictures of Joe's climb and Tracer during the Uprising were flashing on the screen.
"That fucker!" Lena shouted as Zoe turned off the screen. Lena got up from her chair and she started pacing around. Winston and Zoe were quite surprised at the outburst, Lena hadn't been this mad in a really long time. "FUCK!" she yelled as she punched a computer screen, breaking it into pieces, except for the frame.
:Lena, chill, this is probably a huge misunderstanding." Winston said calmly. "Bullshit, I kept telling you Winston, you can't trust these people." she said harshly, Zoe gazed at her curiously. "Lena, seriously we need to figure out what's going on here first before we can proceed. Athena, can you give me a report on what exactly happened?" Winston said. "Yes, it is believed that the assassination of prominent gang leader and weapons maker, Carl Johnson, was linked with the chase that involved a retired Overwatch drop ship that is linked to Agent Lena Oxton. After a mysterious man entered the drop ship however, the ship pulled out of the chase and the person who had been chased, escaped in the chaos." Athena replied quickly.
"Alright, what can you find out about Carl?" Winston asked. "He is a known gang leader in the Seattle area and is also connected to the illegal weapons trade on the manufacturing side. He hasn't been arrested due to a lack of physical evidence along with most of the police force being under his bribery. It is also suspected that he was a benefactor of the old Overwatch organization under an alias. And he is suspected of being killed by the rival group, Talon, because of this." Athena said.
"Well then. That changes things up a bit." Winston said. "A bit? That's a lot of credible evidence against Joe." Zoe said quietly. "Correct." Lena said, a bit meaner than she really meant for it to be. Zoe shrunk back and she started to look at her phone. "That wanker is working with Talon I bet. We should go get 'im." Lena said.
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Sombra looked into the room smiling, she had everything she needed. She clicked her tape recorder and she teleported out.
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Author's Note
Hope you liked this chapter. Because it'll be a while until my next one comes out. Because I'm going out-of-country for a little more than a week. But anyways, what do you guys think about E3 so far? I personally am disappointed, since there's no Red Dead Redemption 2 news, but oh well. Please leave a review, let me know how I'm doing on this so far. See ya next time.