Athena was still downloading the information provided by Rick, but they were able to speed up the process for the outlines and blueprints for Gray's factory. It was thanks to Amelie that they were able to locate a secret tunnel leading from the factory to the shoreline. She used it to sneak away and more importantly, it was unsupervised. It was only a security tunnel for quick escapes if necessary. This time, they were going in as a full unit. Jack was to lead with everyone following him. Although he protested, Winston was ordered to stay behind and watch Amelie and Olivia. Plus he was needed to decipher some of the information that was encrypted. As the group left, Amelie stopped Tom. She pulled something out of her pocket and put it in breast pocket.
"For luck." She told him. He nodded in acknowledgement and walked out with the rest of the group. As he walked, he pulled the item out, it was an old Overwatch medal with the name "Gerard Lacroix" engraved in it. It was her husband's and she gave it to him. Tom felt like he really broke ground with her.
The airship was full and with Rick and Tennessee at the control, the ship took off. Sarah and Tom looked out the window to see Olivia waving farewell to them, sad and afraid to see them off. With her, Amelie stood with her hand on top of the little girl's head. Unlike Olivia, she watched in pride as the ship flew into the distance. In her mind, she knew the group would win.
The group rode along the vehicle that drove quickly down the tunnel. There was some tension in the air, but they didn't let it get the better of them. If they did, then this entire mission would be for nothing. They could see up ahead the large door into the factory, but they found it wide open. This was a bit of a concern because for all they knew, it could have been a trap. When the vehicle came to a stop, they all swarmed the door and ducked on both sides. To see if there was anything waiting, Jack picked up a chunk of loose concrete and threw it into the entryway. There was no reaction at all, so he poked his head around to see if there was anyone in the entryway, but the opening was empty save for the stairs. He gave the go ahead to let them know it was clear and the group stormed inside and up the stairs.
In Gray's office, everyone was gathered together. Gray stood proud before everyone and proclaimed, "Gentlemen, I want to thank you all for your contribution to this enterprise. We are nearing the end stage of our preparations and the time is near to make the world ours. There have been some hiccups here and there, but we managed to pull through. Now, once we finish here, we can move forward."
With that said, he had a guard pour everyone some champagne. The glasses were passed around, but Reaper refused his as he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed. Everyone carried on as they drank hearty, not even aware of what was going on in the bowels of the factory.
In the security room, the guards all sat as they observed the monitors for the cameras. The screens all went static, putting the guards on alert. One of them went outside to check on the lines, but when he found the control panel, he found that the lines were cut. He was about to radio in when he was knocked out from behind by what felt like a staff. He slowly faded into unconsciousness, the last thing he saw was the glow of what looked like golden wings.
"Well, what's the story?" one of the guards called into his walkie-talkie, but only received static. The communications were down as well. He ordered some men to follow him to look for the guard, but when he opened the door, they were met with a barrage of shuriken.
Back with the group, they all huddled together and tried to sat low out of sight from the camera's completely unaware of them being offline. As they came to crossways, Jack pointed groups off into the halls to start the invasion. Duncan and Tracer went off to see if the bombs they left were still hidden, thankfully they were. The Wolfpac went off to locate the main power grid and try to shut down the power. Scott and Sarah went off to find Gray and kill him. Everyone else went to see if they could start their attack. Mishka kept close to Hana with Lucio and Burke, Hana keeping her finger lose to her wristband in case she needed to call her MEKA which was still hidden on the airship.
It was Tracer and Duncan who made the first move. They got clear of the bombs before setting them off. The explosions loudly roared through the factory and the flames rose to escalating levels, so high that Gray saw them from the window in his office high in the tower. At the sight of the flames, he dropped his glass. He turned to the group and shouted, "What the hell is going on out there? Get out there now!"
Now a fire fight started between the group and the guards. The entire factory became a warzone. Mei crushed some of the guards with her ice wall and Pyro covered her from behind, once again giving his favorite phrase, "Flame on!" Tom and Jack stood back to back, firing their weapons. As he fired, Tom shouted, "Piss off, you mongrels!" With Burke giving him an ubercharge, Mishka charged the halls with his mini gun spraying the guards, laughing joyfully to it. Hana and Lucio cover him from behind as the guards charged the four of them. The rest of the Wolfpac were unable to locate the power grid, but they found something worst. They came across the assembly line for all the robots and found that a large amount, possibly tens of thousands of robots were already built and ready for combat. They had to find the power grid before they were activated. Scott and Sarah rushed the halls leading up to the elevator to Gray's office, shooting down any guard that came into their path. Tracer and Duncan all shoot down the guards as they found their way to the open platform they escaped from last time. Tracer was enjoying herself as she teleported about the platform.
With the platform cleared, Tracer and Duncan took a deep breath. The two looked at each other before preparing to leave. That was when the doors to the platform closed in front of them. Lena was then hit in the face by an invisible force and she fell backwards. Duncan ran over to help her, but he was met with the same force. As he staggered to get up, he felt something kick him in the ribs. He knew it was the Spy cloaking himself. The cloak wouldn't last too long, but it would be long enough for the Spy to turn around and kill one of them. Duncan got to his feet and was on guard.
"Duncan!" Lena cried out as he heard the static of the cloaking device deactivate and he turned and slugged the Spy in the face before he could backstab him. Lena leaped to her feet and joined in the fight. The Spy tried to block all their blows, but was driven close to the edge of the platform by Lena, who told him, "It's wankers like you that give Brits a bad name!"
"The only ones who give us a bad name are traitors to the crown like you, dear." The Spy replied as he tried to regain his composure. Duncan and Lena both stood ready to strike as he stood up straight. That was when he activated his cloaking device again and the two lost sight of him. Instead of waiting for him to strike, the two of them instead ran for the doors. Lena rushed ahead tried to open the door for Duncan. She went inside and called out to him. He tried to rush, but the door closed on him.
"No!" she cried out as she tried to open it again, only to find that the Spy was sapping the controls. She banged on the doors, crying out for Duncan.
On the other side, a kunai wedged Duncan's jacket into the wall. He pulled on it to get loose as the Spy walked up to him, loading his pistol. He held the gun to Duncan's head and told him, "Don't worry, I'll make sure Ireland remains in its place with you dead. Right under the control of the Empire."
"Tiocfaidh ar la. Our day will come." Duncan proclaimed. The Spy asked him, "And who will bring that day with you dead?"
"Not me. Him."
Duncan motioned the Spy to turn around, slowly he did. What he saw leaping down from above shocked him. Down came the very cyborg ninja he helped dismantled about a week ago, but he was different now. Instead of behind completely mechanized, there was flesh. Save for his hands, forearms and the back of his head, Genji looked totally human. Face, ears, neck, arms, fingers, all human complete with his Sparrow uniform. The Spy recognized him from his hair and the scarred face he saw when they attacked him and Mercy. Spy watched the ninja land on the ground with his nimble footwork.
(Music start: End Of All Hope by Nightwish)
Genji stood up slowly, his brown eyes glaring at Spy with such furious rage. From above, also came Mercy herself, her wings spread and her staff in hand. Her Valkyrie suit, instead of the usual white coloring, shined with gold. She looked at the Spy with anger, since he was one of the ones who attacked her. The Spy looked at the duo for a brief moment in shock, but he took stance and would finish what he started.
That was unfortunate for him.
Before he could pull the trigger to his pistol, Genji launched a shuriken and it hit the gun and it flew out of the Spy's hand. Genji then charged the Spy, kneeing him in the groin. The blow was for Angela. He then gave the Spy an uppercut to the jaw, then a swipe to his face, then another, and a swift kick to his head, sending the Spy flying. The Spy was staggering towards Mercy, who spun her staff and hit him in the face. The spy then fell to the ground only to leap to his feet again and drew his knives. He tried to get Genji, but Genji deflected the knives with is short blade as he charged the Spy. He spun in the air and gave the Spy another kick to the head. The Spy staggered to the edge of the platform and nearly fell off when Genji grabbed him by his shirt.
"I'm not done with you yet." Genji growled. Genji pulled Spy back onto the platform and right back towards Mercy, who once again whacked him in the face with her staff. This was the most violent Mercy has ever been. She normally hated violence, but after what he did to both her and Genji, her pacifism would have to take a backseat for the time being.
With the Spy disoriented from the repeated blows, he didn't see Genji coming after him again. Genji head butted him and he continued to stagger back when Duncan, now free from the kunai, clotheslined him. He went down one more time, but they didn't see him land next to his gun. He reached for it and got back up, pointing it at Genji. He shot and got Genji in the shoulder, but Genji rushed him swiftly, calling out, "Ryūjin no ken o kurae!"
The Spy only watched as the green dragon emulated from Genji's blade and attack him. The Spy felt nothing but pain rush through him as the blade swung through him as though he was made of air. As the dragon passed over him, the Spy's body began to disintegrate. Genji's rage for the Spy was so strong that the dragon's energy mirrored it and turned the Spy into a cloud of smoke.
(Music ends)
After the dragon vanished back to the blade, Genji took a deep breath as he tried to calm himself. It was then he finally noticed the bullet in his shoulder and groaned in pain has he gripped it. Thankfully with Mercy with him, she healed him. She placed her hand over where his wound was and he placed his hand over hers. The two looked at each other and she smiled up at him.
"So, this was the man behind the mask." Duncan commented. Before anything was said, Lena forced the door open, ignored Angela and Genji and embraced Duncan tightly. After he wrapped his arms around her, she finally noticed Angela and Genji.
Tom and Jack escaped the skirmish they created and split up. Jack just ran down a random corridor to keep on fighting. That was when a puff of black smoke appeared in front of him. When the smoke cleared, there was Reaper standing before him.
"Gabriel!"
"Jack."
Gray Mann watched from his window as his factory was being blow to rubble. All his hard work was crumbling before his very eyes. He knew there was only one way to stop this. He walked back to his desk and sat down in his chair. He shuffled some papers away and reached for a small box. He lifted it up and revealed a small red button with the words "Robot Activation" written around it. He slow reached for the button with his shaky hand when…
"Don't even think about it, old man."
There in the doorway was none other than Scott and Sarah.
Jack fell back as Reaper…Reyes…knocked him in the face. The two didn't want to fight with their guns, for this fight was personal. Jack tried to get back up as he crawled on all fours, but Reyes grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him up only to knee him in the abdomen. Though in pain from the blow, Jack elbowed Reyes in the exact same spot, then again and again until Reyes let him go. Jack was back on his feet and threw a punch to the back of Reyes' head. Reyes saw stars with that blow, but he was far from down. He quickly turned around and blocked another blow from Jack and planted one right in his jaw. Jack stumbled back but was ready to throw another blow. His fist collided with Reyes' jaw while Reyes' fist collided with Jack's. The two men fell backwards and fell into fatigue. The fight had taken a toll on both men.
"Why…Why do you fight, Jack?" Reyes asked, panting hardly. "Overwatch…it wasn't what we made it…we created something together."
"That's not…how…I look at it." Jack told him, Reyes looking at him. "I admit it…I lost track of who we were…we were supposed…to…protect the world…I lost my mind…and I forgot about you…"
"You…took my command from me!"
"If I could take it back, I would. But I can't. That's why I'm helping recreate Overwatch; to make sure I don't make the same mistakes."
"Lies!" Reyes shouted as he rushed over to Jack, grabbing one of his shotguns. He reached Jack, who was still laying on the ground, and pointed the gun at Jack's forehead. Jack was still trying to catch his breath, but he finally spoke again, "You can hate me all you want, you have that right. But I just have one question."
"What's that?"
"Why did you help me create Overwatch?"
Reyes stopped for a moment, the very thought about all those years ago when he and Jack along with Ana, Reinhardt, Gerard, Tor and so many other got together to form Overwatch. All those years, watching over the people of the Earth to fight the first omnic crisis. He help rescue people from collapsing towers, he saved children from burning buildings, even nearly lost his own life trying to save one person. Jack's question triggered the memories of when he was a hero.
He hated Jack for taking the command of Overwatch, but he was far beyond angry with him for triggering these memories. All these years he slowly turned from Gabriel Reyes to Reaper, he tried to forget everything and get back at all of those who have wronged. He tried his best to hunt them down and kill them. Now, all of that was fading away. He wanted to just pull the trigger and end it all and become Reaper once again. With Jack out of the way, he could continue to with his plans.
But he just couldn't.
After all that had happened between the two, he couldn't kill Jack.
"We created Overwatch to protect the Earth." Reyes said as he lowered his weapon. The two men just looked at each other.
Scott and Sarah gripped Gray's arms as they went down the elevator. There was a silence as Sarah held her pistol to his head. She just thought over what Olivia told her about the old man swearing at her and she desperately wanted to pull the trigger. The only thing keeping her from doing it was the fact if she did, she would have gotten blood all over Scott. Plus, they agreed to do it Boondocks Saints style together when they got down stairs.
After Hana finally called her MEKA into the factory, she and Mishka stayed close together to fight off the guards. However, they didn't realize that the flooring beneath them was weakening due to the foundation starting to fall apart from the explosions earlier. It wasn't known until the ground nearly collapsed under Hana's MEKA. She began to stumble as the machine's feet went through the ground. She tried to activate her thrusters, but they weren't operating. Mishka saw that she was falling through the ground and he dropped his gun to grip the machine as he stood on solid ground.
"Eject now!" he called out, but her screen showed another system error warning. Hana tried to undo the latch, but her hands were too weak for it. The machine began to sink deeper until the ground around her fell in the rocky island below. Mishka was starting to slide across the ground and he wrapped his arm around a support beam, his mechanical arm holding the MEKA.
"I can't get out!" she cried out. Mishka's grip was starting to slip and Hana knew he couldn't hold on much longer.
"Let me go!"
Those three words all but made Mishka's heart stop. He looked into the cockpit and saw Hana giving him a sad smile.
"Just let me go…papa."
That was it.
With a loud roar, Mishka gave it his all in his one arm to pull the MEKA up. The mechanics in his arm was sparking and the arm nearly gave up, but he gave the MEKA one strong pull and he pulled the large machine up onto the ground. He reached in and with what little strength his arm had undid the latch. She was able to climb out, but his arm was done. Worn out from holding the machine, Mishka fell back onto the ground and tried to catch his breath. He held his arm as it powered down. Hana leaned over him, tears in her eyes. He looked up at her, his eyes also tearing, smiled at her, and said, "I'll never let you go."
The door to the power room exploded and the room filled with dynamite capsules, blowing up all the guards in the room. Jean, Fergus and Tennessee all ran inside and began to fumble around with the controls.
Jack and Reyes had found the main assembly line for the robots, still sealed off to protect the outside from the extreme heat. Jack looked inside and shuttered at the sight of the robots and the robots that were still being produced.
"Here!" Reyes called to him. He was typing into the operation controls to the assembly line. "If I can get access to the mainframe, we can shut these tin cans down for good."
He typed as fast as he could and he found the mainframe while Jack watched with anticipation.
"I got it!" Reyes shouted. "All I need is to enter the code and I can shut them down."
The power grid's controls were difficult to understand, but thanks to Fergus and Tennessee's fumbling around, they actually found the main breaker and were able to shut it down.
As Reyes began to type the code, the screen shut down.
"What? God damn it no!" he growled as he rammed his fist against the computer. Jack looked in the factory and saw that the assembly was still moving.
"Why are they still going?" Jack asked.
"They're on a different power source, they'll just keep going!"
Jack looked around and found a maintenance entrance to the assembly line room and ran for it.
"No! If you go in there, you'll be eviscerated!" Reyes stopped him.
That was when he had an idea.
Jack watched him walk off and come back from a nearby armory. He saw that Reyes had a large array of explosives over his shoulders.
Scott and Sarah were able to get out of the elevator before the power outage with Gray. They forced him on his knees as they had their pistols pointed at the back of his head. He said absolutely nothing, but Sarah had only two words for him, "For Olivia."
"Gabriel…no!" Jack gasped as he finally caught onto what Reyes was about to do. Reyes activated his reposition mist and was able to have it port into the assembly line room. Reyes slowly looked at Jack and said, "Tell Ana I love her."
"Gabriel!" Jack screamed as Reyes disappeared. Afterwards, the center of the assembly line room exploded. Due to the heavy amount of heat combined with the large quantities of chemicals in the large room, this caused the explosion to grow even bigger and the shock of it shook the entire factory.
Before they would shoot Gray, the roof collapsed above Scott and Sarah. The two of them jumped out of the way to avoid getting crushed. Scott covered himself over Sarah so she wouldn't get hurt. The two of them slowly looked up to see that Gray didn't jump out of the way. He was still alive, but was half covered in the heavy rubble. Scott helped her up and was about to pull her away.
"Wait." She told him. She turned to the groaning old man as he looked up at her. She walked to him and knelt down. She reached for him and pulled the small brick of Australium from the life preserving machine on his back and he screamed in pain.
"A little something to help with Olivia's future."
"Sarah, the whole place is coming down!" Scott urged her. She turned to face him and the two of them ran, leaving Gray to get completely crushed by the rubble that was already on top of him.
The group was huddled on the vehicle, waiting for Scott and Sarah. All of them agreed that they weren't leaving without them. Thankfully it wasn't a long wait as Scott and Sarah ran down the stairs and onto the vehicle. The vehicle started and it took off. The more down the tunnel it went, the less debris and water from the ocean the tunnel was built under was falling they were moving further and further away, but they heard the final collapse of the factory.
The sun shone bright as the entire group exited the tunnel. As the group celebrated, Jack ran for the water, pulling out his binoculars. He tired to see if he could get a glimpse of the factory in the distance. Thankfully he could and through the rising smoke, he could see the rest of it fall into the sea. When it was all gone, he lowered his binoculars.
"Gabriel…"
