"You." Fareeha said, hate and spite dripping from her words like poison.
All Widowmaker did in response was to chuckle, as she pressed the gunbarrel towards Fareeha's forehead. "Should we continue the family tradition?" She then asked, in a mocking voice.
At first, Fareeha looked up at her in silence. All she wanted to do in that moment was to wipe the grin off her mother's muderer's face. Preferably with a rocket. However, she knew that would likely result in her own death, and then she'd be of no help to her friends.
She let out sigh, before looking into Widowmaker's eyes with determination. "We don't have a tradition." She answered, before firing her concussive blast on the wall behind Widowmaker, knocking them both out over the edge.
Fareeha immediately activated her suits rockets, and as she ascended upwards, she saw Widowmaker using her grappeling hook to get up on the third floor.
Fareeha was about to go after her, when a message appeared on her display: 'Fuel Low'.
"Goddammit." She mumbled to herself, before quickly deciding to head back to the others.
As she landed on the same level as the others, she was suddenly pulled down behind the railing, that thankfully provided full cover. "What...?" She started, but she was cut off when a bullet flew past her face.
At first dazed over how close she was to dying there, she eventually looked at who'd saved her, and saw Genji. "Thanks." She simply said.
"You're welcome, but why aren't you flying?" He asked, as another bullet flew over them.
"My fuel reserves are low." Fareeha simply explained, and Genji let out an annoyed sigh. As no one said anything, Fareeha looked around and saw that Angela was the only other person with them behind the railing.
"Where's everyone else?" Fareeha asked, as a bullet hit the railing's metal cover.
"Reinhardt took the uncouncious Winston inside the shop." Angela explained.
"And since he can't really fit behind here, he's staying there until we figure out just what to do." Genji added.
"Well, then what ARE we supposed to do now?" Fareeha asked, as a bullet hit the very top of the railing, and bounced off.
"I don't know!" Genji snapped back, clearly frustrated over their situation. "Winston's uncouncious, and both McCree and 76 aren't close enough to come and help us!" He added.
"Genji, please calm down." Angela tried, and Genji let out a low sigh.
"I know... sorry." Genji apologized.
There were a few moments of silence, Widowmaker's relentless assault the only noise in the hall, until Fareeha remembered something. "What about your short-sword?" She asked Genji.
"No use." The cyborg ninja responded with a disheartend voice, as he showed her the broken hilt. "Reaper." Genji answered her question, before she'd even had a chance to ask.
Fareeha took the hilt in her hands, and looked as if she was deep in thought, as she looked at it.
"What are you thinking?" Angela asked.
"I just remembered something my mother used to say about sniping." Fareeha answered, before explaining further.
"Two of the most important things you needed when sniping was concentration and reflexes. However, those two things could also easily make you very twitchy, and sometimes you could get distracted by unimportant movement." She explained, and both Angela and Genji knew where she was going with this.
"You want to temporarily distract her?" Genji asked, and Fareeha nodded.
"Yes." She confirmed. "I was thinking if you could stay here, Angela, and throw this, me and Genji could the start to close the distance, with much less risk, if she takes the bait."
"If?" Genji asked.
"Yes. Talon may have counteracted it, somehow, I don't know." Fareeha admitted.
"Well, there's only one way to find out." Genji argued. "Besides, it's the closest thing we have to a plan."
"Right, let's do this." Angela encouraged. Fareeha quickly handed her the broken hilt, before moving towards the edge of the level with Genji.
When both Genji and Fareeha had reached the edge of the level, they turned towards Angela. The Swiss doctor nodded, and the two nodded back, before Angela focused her attention of hilt.
She pulled back her arm, and after three seconds, she threw it with all the force she could muster in the direction opoosite of Genji and Fareeha.
For a few moments, the hilt soared through the air. Not a single sound was heard. Every muscle, mechanical or organic, in both Fareeha and Genji's bodies were tensed, and ready to unleash at a moments notice.
Then, with a single metallic shriek, the hilt shattered mid-air.
Both Genji and Fareeha sprinted forwards in that moment. However, Genji knew that splitting futher up could make them more vulnerable, so he lowered his speed to match with Fareeha.
As they ran through the hall, Genji noticed a figure moving above them, and a reflection of light, but he didn't really have time to think about it.
They both continued to run, while Angela looked on from behind the railing, but as they did, Fareeha noticed that, after the hilt, Widowmaker hadn't taken another shot at them.
Upon realizing this, Fareeha looked up towards Widowmaker's position. It took her a few seconds, but she eventually managed to spot the assassin. And she was aiming right at them!
Fareeha quickly looked at Genji, who was a few feet in front of her.
Acting quickly, Fareeha activated her jump jets. But instead of launching her upwards, she aimed herself forward, and she quickly rammed right into Genji.
At first, Genji was confused. But when he felt the sensation of a bullet missing him, he immediately understood.
The pair continued to unwillingly tumble forward, until they luckily stopped behind the railing of an escalator. They both got up quickly, but as Genji was about to take a step out from the railing, a bullet whisked right past him.
He quickly retreated back into cover, but now they were stuck again.
They sat behind cover for a few seconds, until Fareeha made a decision. She looked at excactly how much fuel she had left, and decided it was enough.
"Be ready to go!" She suddenly said to Genji, who at first didn't understand.
"What are you doing?" Genji asked back.
"I'm going to distract her, so you can make a run for it." Fareeha quickly explained, as she reloaded her rocket launcher.
"I thought you didn't have any more fuel!" Genji asked.
"I have enough for about a minute, three at most." Fareeha slightly absentmindedly answered.
As Fareeha was done checking her gear, she looked up at Genji, her eyes filled with determination.
"Make sure she gets what she deserves." Fareeha said, as her departing words. Genji nodded, and Fareeha immediately shot up into the sky, and aimed her rocket launcher at Widowmaker, who was luckily still in the same spot.
The assassin was about to shoot Fareeha, but the egyptian was too quick and she managed to shoot a rocket before Widowmaker could manage to shoot her.
Annoyed, she shot out her grappeling hook, and pulled herself up to a balcony, just as the rocket hit the wall behind her. She quickly extended her sniping rifle, and aimed at Fareeha, who was visibly starting to loose movement in the air.
A smile crept upon her face, as she put a finger over the trigger.
Fareeha still used whatever fuel she had left to turn and aim at Widowmaker, meanwhile the assassin adjusted her rifle slightly, so the crosshair was just over Fareeha's right eye.
She got a tighter grip around the trigger, and she held her breath. She was about to shoot, when she felt something forcing it to move a little to the right, making her miss.
Further annoyed, she turned to her left, only to see Genji standing with one remaining shuriken in his hand.
"Overwatch's hound dog." Widowmaker exclaimed, as she stood up and turned towards him.
"You're one to talk." Genji retorted, as he reloaded on shurikens. Admittedly, he did feel more vulnerable without his wakizashi, but he wasn't going to give Widowmaker the pleasure of knowing that.
Widowmaker simply chuckled, as she aimed the Widow's Kiss at him.
"Just you?" She then asked, in a mocking tone. "You're not going to help your supposed friends?"
"I'm helping them by getting rid of you." Genji retorted, his voice cold and unempathetic. "Besides, if it's anything like how you 'helped' Reaper, then don't count on it." He added, as he slowly started circling her.
"That wasn't my fault." Widowmaker was now the one to retort. "Even if I wanted to help, he wanted to take you on himself. I'm not the one to blame, when he's the one who overestimates his abilities."
"Perhaps." Genji answered. "And perhaps I should be thankful you waited until after we'd dealt with him." He added, as he continued circling her.
"You should be." Widowmaker said.
Genji stopped circling her, and stared straight into Widowmaker's cold eyes. "And as a how of gratitude..." Genji started, as his stance suddenly became more offensive. "... I'll try to restrain myself from beating you TO A BLOODY PULP!" He shouted, as he suddenly charged her.
Unprepared for the sudden assault Widowmaker instinctively aimed her rifle at Genji, but the cyborg ninja was too quick. He quickly grapped the barrel with one hand, and pulled it away from him, before kicking it out of Widowmaker's hand.
He swiftly followed it up with a punch to the head, but Widowmaker put her gauntlet in between, stopping the hit.
Exploiting his brief vulnerability, she followed it up kicking Genji's chest, knocking him a few meters back.
Genji managed to get up quickly, as the Widow's Kiss landed right behind it's owner. She took a small step back, as Genji aimed his shurikens at her, warning her not to go any further.
Instead of risking it, by going after her rifle, Widowmaker instead shot out her grapppeling hook at Genji, but the ninja managed to grap it mid-air, before quickly yanking her towards him.
Once the assassin was within his reach, he gave her head a hard backhand, knocking her into the wall, and breaking her nose.
Genji quickly bend down over her, before grapping her around the throat, and lifting her up against the wall.
"Don't bother resisting." He said, as his grip around her throat began to ever so slightly tighten.
At first, all Widowmaker did, was to put her right hand around Genji's unyielding wrist, as she tried to support herself on her legs.
"You'll pay for what Talon has done here." Genji hissed.
"So what? Now I'm the scapegoat for something I hardly took part in?" Widowmaker asked, as her eyes suddenly locked on to Genji's visor.
"Your, socalled 'teammate', left you to clean up what you did to my people." Genji responded.
"Your people?" Widowmaker suddenly asked. "These aren't your people. Not any longer. You're an abomination of nature."
"No. I grew up close to here. This is my place, and you know it!" Genji defied, but cracks of uncertainty were starting to appear in his voice, and Widowmaker smiled.
"No one here knows you. No one here cares about you." Widowmaker argued. "And even if they did, they'd only remember you as a member of a crime syndicate." She added.
"No, I'm their protector. It's my duty." Genji argued back, sounding more desperate.
"All you did before your transformation was using the people you came across, to suit yourself." Widowmaker continued.
"No..." Genji responded, but Widowmaker continued. "You're lucky they don't know you, otherwise they'd despise you for who you used to be. And what you've become. You..."
"SHUT UP!" Genij shouted, as he punched the wall next to Widowmaker's face, cracking it. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" He shouted.
"Oh please, your head isn't private anymore." The assassin responded, and Genji's expression turned from rage to surprise.
"Yes..." Widow then said. "... we know about your good doctor's pet."
"YEAARGH!" Genji shouted in frustration, as he turned around, and threw her into the railing, bending it. However, as she looked up at him, her expression was that of triumph.
She simply chuckled, before pushing a button on her wrist, detonating the venom mine planted on the wall behind Genji.
A purple smoke enveloped Genji, and quickly entered his respiratory system. He immediately began to couch violently, as he fell to his knees.
Widowmaker simply continued to chuckle, as she got up, and walked over to her rifle. She bent down and picked it up, as Genji, still coughing, fell over.
"At least your tech will be valuable to Talon. Once you're dead, of course." She taunted, as she walked over to the fallen Genji.
"You should have learned from your british friend's example." She said, before aiming the rifle at Genji's head.
Desperately seeking for any way out of his situation, Genji looked up towards the roof, when he saw something. The same reflection of light, and the same shadowy figure, right under the roof.
Something about that figure intrigued Genji, and he kept looking, when he suddenly saw something else about the figure. The relfection og light suddenly began to get bigger and bigger. It was coming towards him. No, not him. Widowmaker.
Genji continued to follow the lights path, as it came closer and closer to the unaware Widowmaker.
And then, it suddenly collided with her rifle, and pinned it against the wall, as Genji finally saw what it was: An arrow.
Only a split second later, another arrow landed right in front of Genji's face, but this one was different. As Genji examined it, he saw that it was much more detailed than the other. And then he saw what was painted on the arrow: A green and a blue dragon.
Suddenly reinvigorated, Genji first put his left hand against the ground, then the right one. Then, with whatever energy he could muster, he managed to stand upright.
"You... were going to hurt my friends and people." He said, as Widowmaker started back at him, with surprise in her eyes.
"You... wanted to destroy and kill." He then said, as his right hand suddenly began to move behind his back.
"But I won't let you." Genji then said, with an incredible amount of determination in his voice. "These people are under my protection, and you will. Not. Harm. Them!" Genji finished, as his hand grapped the hilt of his katana."
"Ryūjin no ken wo kūrae!" Genji shouted, as he drew his sword. All of his energy was immediately restored to his body, and the poison evaporated from his veins, as the green dragon followed the movement of his blade.
Genji immediately dashed forward, and sliced at Widowmaker, forcing her to dogde, instead of retrieving her rifle.
Genji straight away followed it up with another swipe, this one too quick for her to dogde. Instead she raised her gauntlet to block. However, once the sword made contact with the gauntlet, it shattered it effortlessly.
The now defenceless Widowmaker took a single step back, but Genji swung at her again. This time, she didn't have the time to do anything. Pain immediately shot through her entire body, as the blade cut over her left eye, and the flesh above and below it.
With a loud "AAARGH!", Widowmaker fell to the ground, and curled up, as she out her hand over her cut eye.
"Surrender." Genji said in a cold voice, as he stood triumphant over her. The dragon dissapeared, as he sheathed his sword, but energy still flowed through his bosy, and he was ready if she tried anything.
"Never!" Widowmaker responded, as she raised her head in defiance, letting Genji see the purplish blood that ran through her fingers.
"I wasn't asking." Genji simply responded.
Looking for any escape, Widowmaker unexpectedly swept Genji's feet away from under him, before suddenly getting up, and running towards the remains of her gauntlet.
She quickly managed to find the, somehow still working, grappeling hook, and as Genji managed to get up, she shot out the hook, and escaped up to the roof, where she vanished.
Genji simply went over to the remains of her gauntlet, and looked up at where she'd dissapeared. He then quickly looked for the archer, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"Let that scar be a reminder of what happened today." He mumbled, before jumping down, to check on the others.
Soldier 76 and McCree was going up the stairs, towards the main hall, after being done securing the lower levels.
Apart from two, quite uncoordinated, groups of Talon operatives, they hadn't run into any trouble.
However, they forgot about it almost immediately, when they finally entered the main hall, only to see Reinhardt and Genji carrying an uncounciouss Winston.
"What happened here?" 76 asked, and Genji went over to answer, as McCree took his place.
"Reaper got him bad, but dr. Ziegler's done all she can for him." Genji explained.
"Then I'll take it you managed to fend him off?" 76 then asked, and Genji nodded.
"Yes, but there were... further complications." Genji answered.
"What kind of complications?" 76 inquired, and Genji started telling him about how they managed to defeat Widowmaker, as they began to walk back to the dropship, along with the rest of the team.
"... and then, once I made it up to her, I eventually managed to scare her off, and give her a scar to remember it." Genji finished his tale, purposefully leaving out the part about the archer.
"Well, nicely done." 76 complimented, as they entered the dropship.
The ship took off, and as Genji was about to sit down, 76 asked him one last question. "Anything else I should know?"
Genji subtetly put his hand over his pockets, to feel the decorated arrow, he'd taken with him.
"No." He eventually answered. "That's everything you need to know."
A/N: And that's the second part. Now, due to the nature of this story, the majority of what I write, and you read, is characters talking. Action-focused chapters like these are, admittedly, few and far between. And a consequence of that, for me at least, is that I get much less experience in writing action, and as such, once these chapters FINALLY appear, I'm more out of my comfort zone than usual, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I believe that, as a writer, I should always strive to improve in every possible way. So if you have any feedback related to these sorts of chapters, then I'd love to hear it (Yeah, I know it might've been better to ask this in the previous chapter, but I forgot about it there). Until next time.