Talon Training

After the success of introducing the energy drink to DVa, Reaper felt comfortable enough to proceed with her training. He had hired two Australian outcasts who looked straight out of Mad Max, Roadhog and Junkrat. The two were promised a large sum of gold in exchange for using them as combat trainers for the gremlin.

"So uh...ya got the heaps of gold, yeh?" Junkrat wanted to confirm with the edgelord.

"As long as you do your job…" Reaper responded darkly.

"Aye, Cap'n!" He saluted before butting his fat buddy's stomach, "Let's show this Sheila how it's done."

"You got it," Roadhog thumbed up.

DVa was idling around the room in her black zero suit that she was supplied with by Widowmaker. She had a can of Monster at hand and looked about an obstacle course that looked intricate and almost deadly. There were bear traps, rotating spikes, and swinging blades on every platform. It was like your average Skyrim dungeon.

Jumkrat raised his arms up and shouted, "Welcome! To the obstacle course from Down Under! You'll be faced with heaps of trinkets and thingos that'll...try and kill ya."

"You said it," His large hype man added.

DVa took a sip of her drink and tossed it behind her, "Alright...Bring it on! But first, let me hop into my mech…"

Reaper stepped in and informed, "Actually...there will be NO mech."

"Huh?" DVa frowned, "But...I literally have two plus lives when I'm in in…"

"I want to see how well you survive out of it…"

DVa stared at the course with wide eyes until she felt someone nudge her arm.

"Don't worry, Chica..I got your back," Sombra winked in reassurance.

DVa looked over at Reaper and asked, "What if I die?"

"I get to consume your soul…"

"I have never heard anything so edgy in my whole life…." DVa gulped. She popped her gloved knuckles and pulled out her bunny blaster saying, "Okay...I'm ready…"

Junkrat laughed maniacally and skipped away in glee, "Let's begin!" He pulled a few levers which caused the platform where DVa was standing on to move towards the first level. The ground was covered in bear traps yet she used her blaster to destroy a few at a time, to make herself a path to the other side. On the second level, she had to hop on even smaller platforms to avoid falling into the rotating spikes. She carefully hopped from one small surface to the other and she almost fell back at one point until she found her balance. On the third level, there were a dozen swinging blades coming in practically all directions. It looked practically impossible to cross as there was no clear pattern to memorize and outdo.

Sombra noticed this and decided to do a little work in the control room. She hacked the system to where half of the blades "malfunctioned" to the point of being unable to swing. This gave DVa the advantage to make it through the level much more easily.

"What's wrong with the bloody things? Ah well! Time for your next trial!" Junkrat pulled out a large tire and yelled, "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" He let the tire rip and it rolled frantically towards DVa. She screamed and began running for dear life.

"Shoot at it!" Sombra yelled at her, "Your gun is your best friend!"

"Oh yeah!" Hana cheerfully remembered (despite using her gun minutes ago). She then turned towards the tire and began shooting away at it while looking aside, bracing for the explosion. She shot it down and sighed in relief once it was all over.

Junkrat darkly chuckled, "Oh, I've got plenty more, Mate…" He pulled out two more tires and started them up at the same time.

"Oh great…" She frowned as more tires began to spawn from the crazy Aussie. She ran around, shooting tire after tire. When one got too close, she took cover until she heard it explode. Eventually, the man had run out of tires since there are so many one could possibly bring on a blimp.

"Noice shootin', yeh?" He complimented, "Now it's me buddy's turn to have a go at ya."

"What does he do?" Hana cocked her head.

"He's a hooker," Junkrat laughed, "Ready, Roadie?"

"I always am," Roadhog pulled out his large hook and threw it towards DVa.

DVa gasped, "Not the kunai with chain!" She immediately rushed to find cover and was desperate to avoid getting hooked. The fat man followed her around and his booming steps and breaths of asthma intimidated her greatly. Every 5 seconds, she would hear a hook fly by her and it was only a matter of time until she would get caught. "This is worse than any exploding tire!" DVa cried.

"You can do it, Lokita!" Sombra shouted to her from the spectator's bridge nearby, "As long as you're out of the hook's line of sight, you'll be fine!"

"Don't you mean Roadhog's line of sight?"

"Nah, that shit's got a mind of its own…"

DVa saw the hook coming towards her once again, she turned the corner but somehow, the hook magically went through the wall and whipped her right back around to Roadhog. Her immobilized body ran into his large stomach and she braced herself for the finishing headshot. Instead, he waved "hi" to her and reassured, "I don't know how that happened either...but you won."

DVa smiled and replied with a happy, "Thanks!" And gave the large piggy a hug.

Junkrat hopped down from his platform and laughed, "You should've seen yourself jumpin' around like a Joey! You've got skill, Cobber." He then turned back to Reaper and asked, "Soooo, where's the good ole loot?"

Reaper looked over at one of the generic black dressed henchmen and ordered, "Show them to the room…"

The man nodded and allowed the men to follow him to the "special room". He allowed them to walk through the door first and Junkrat concluded, "Thanks, Ma- AHHHHHHHH!" The door led to the outside of the blimp, dropping him and his buddy off of the floating vehicle. The henchman chuckled until he suddenly got hooked by Roadhog, joining the Australians in their plummet to the earth.

"Hey! What'd you do that for?" DVa frowned.

"We're 'bag guys'...it's what we do," He snarkily replied. He then looked over at Sombra and called her over. She obediently came to his side and he commented, "DVa seems to listen to you...You're the key to getting her on our side. If this succeeds...I'll raise your rank from Platinum to Master…"

There were sparkles in her eyes and she asked, "You mean that? I mean...Grandmaster would be nice too~"

"Don't push it…" He was tempted to take back what he said.

Sombra grabbed onto the railing and stared ahead. She was now conflicted. Should she continue to try and help DVa get back home or should she help Talon and reach the rank she has been longing her whole life for?

Back at her bedroom, Hana was sitting on the floor, eating a bag of cool ranch flavored Doritos while wearing one of Sombra's set of pajamas.

While munching on her non-traditional chips she asked the hacker, "So what picture should we sneak on the blimp tonight? Me getting tied up with duct tape over my mouth? Ooh! How about one of those red ball things that I saw my mom trying on once?"

"I think we should hold off pics tonight...my computer's been acting up lately," Sombra fibbed.

"Aww but we could be running out of time!" DVa pouted, "We planned to do this every time because someone is bound to take notice!"

"I know, I know! It's just…." Sombra looked around the room and found the mugshot of McCree she had posted on her wall along with other "criminals". She pulled the picture off of the wall and asked, "You know this hombre, right?"

"Yeah! That's my uncle!" Hana smiled, she had already mentally declared him as family ever since the Halloween event.

"Time to give Uncle Joel a call…" Sombra smirked.