Moira turned to look at Gabriel. She lost her smirk and she began to walk back toward him. She crossed her arms as she stopped right in front of him.
"Gabriel, darling." She said coyly. "Why don't you explain to me what exactly is going on and why you interfered with me and Akande's plan?" She asked, Akande stood up and put his hand on Gabriel's shoulder. Gabriel held out his arm in front of Moira to which she took to help him up, Sombra noticing that they were all touching at once, suddenly held onto Gabriel's thigh and activated her teleporter, that suddenly transported the four of them at the rooftop where Amelie was lying, fainted.
"What the-?" Akande said as they all landed roughly a few feet away from a purple woman.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Moira said, having been teleported not of her own doing and looking at Sombra crawling painfully over to Amelie.
"How did you-?" Gabriel began.
"I attached a smaller teleport pad to her hip. In case we needed to escape..." Sombra said, gripping her leg, that held the bullet wound. "Good thing I did."
"How did you know it would teleport all of us at once?" Gabriel asked.
"I didn't..." Sombra winced painfully before turning to Moira. "Hey, peliroja, a little help here please? Both of us?" Sombra said. "First her, cuz she's been like this for a while." Sombra said. Moira rolled her eyes.
"And just why would I help you out? You ruined a plan of mine and took me here against my will. You're not really working any favors for yourselves." She frowned, earning one from Sombra.
"Moira." Gabriel said, causing her to turn to him. "Please. We'll explain everything, but please, help them." He said. Moira's eyebrows raised. Surprised that Gabriel appeared to be...begging? She found this strange, yet intriguing. "I promise, we'll explain everything. But help them first." He said. Moira hesitated before scoffing.
"Fine." She rolled her eyes before looking around. "Not here, though. Let us go below inside the building, find a room and I'll treat them there." Moira said. "You two." She pointed at Akande and Gabriel. "Pick them up. I am not carrying anyone." She began to walk over to the door that lead to the rooftop.
Gabriel and Akande stood up and walked over to the Amelie and Sombra. Gabriel took Amelie's rifle and strapped it to his back before picking her up into his arms. Akande noticed that Gabriel was eager to go to her first. He would have to ask his hispanic friend later.
"Well? Tall, dark, and handsome, aren't you going to help little ol' me?" Sombra said with a smirk as she looked up to Akande with flirty eyes, causing his throat to tighten at her words.
"I am that and much more." He said, trying to sound disinterested in her. As he picked her up with great ease, she let out a surprised 'woo'.
"Someone's been doing their workouts in prison." Sombra admired. "I must be a paperweight to you." She winced as his hand went over her wound. "Ah! Watch it, bruto!" She exclaimed.
"Apologies." Akande said as he re-positioned his hand to another area on her thigh.
"Better. Geez, you need to learn how to handle a woman better than you're doing now." She raised one eyebrow suggestively, only to be ignored by him. As they made their way over to the door, Moira was trying to figure out how to unlock it.
"This door won't budge. We're going to need some explosives or something to get in." She explained until Akande stepped in front of her and with a two strong front kicks, the door came unhinged and fell down the stairs.
"Dios mio!" Sombra exclaimed, waving her hand in front of her face to cool herself. "Fuerte tambien?" She turned to Gabriel. "We should have definitely rescued him sooner, Gabe." Causing Akande to roll his eye over again. Gabriel followed after him, with Amelie in his arms and Moira following behind.
They walked down a couple flights of stairs and found a doorway that lead to a floor empty of people, but full of furnishings like a fully prepared waiting lounge.
"Right here." Moira said as she told the men to place the injured women in the seats. They sat them upright across from each other.
"I am going to go retrieve my gauntlet." Doomfist said. "I'll be back shortly." He said as he began to walk to the door." Gabriel followed behind him.
"I'm coming with you." He said. Akande did not seem to mind and continued to walk down the hall.
"So my friend, we have much to discuss." Akande said.
"It appears so." Gabriel admitted as they turned the corner down the stairs.
Moira knelt in front of Sombra and quickly sprayed a golden stream over her wound. Suddenly the pain was gone.
"Woah..." She admired. "Gabriel wasn't kidding, you're the real deal." Sombra complimented.
"I sure hope he did. Though that only takes the pain away, I still need to remove the bullet. What's your friend's condition over there?" Moira asked, nodding toward Amelie.
"She..." Sombra paused. "It's hard to describe. But I have her file right here." She brought up a hologram with Amelie's condition thoroughly explained. "I'm not as medically gifted as you, but me and Gabe tried to give her controlled amounts of oxygen to keep her regulated." Sombra explained, hoping that her insight helped Moira in finding a way to help Amelie in return.
"I see. This is very complex." She pondered. "I am going to need to run some blood tests, then compare this data with her current one." She said. "It will be hard, but not impossible." She stood up and walked over to Amelie, spraying the smaller dose of the golden spray under her nose, causing her to wake up with heavy breathing.
"Gabriel!" She gasped, and looked for him desperately.
"Calm down, you're safe." Moira said, not comfortingly at all, Amelie looked at her with confusion and alert, before noticing Sombra behind her.
"What's...what's happening?" She asked, more calm this time.
"You're safe. But not for long unless we begin to work now. I'm going to need to take a blood sample and do some compare and contrasting. I'm Moira, by the way." She said quickly. Were it not for Amelie's keen sense of attention and focus, she'd have lost track of her explanation halfway through.
"Where's Gabriel?" She repeated.
"You're not as concerned with your condition as I thought normal people would be." Moira pointed out. "But I guess normal was never in the cards for us." She sighed.
"Viuda." Sombra said, catching Amelie's attention. "Just do what she says, Gabe will be back. Don't worry. He's fine." She assured the purple woman, putting her at ease and nodding at Moira.
"Alright, hold your arm out." Moira said, which Amelie obliged. Moira swabbed an alcohol wipe over where her vein would be and took out a needle and injected it into Amelie's vein and took some blood out.
"How long will a cure take?" Amelie asked.
"Difficult to say. But with a case hypoxia as advanced as yours, it's hard to tell. Granted, it is harder to keep you the way you are now, meaning Talon really needed you alive, but the treatment for less severe cases are quiet easily treated with the right therapy, medication, and transfusions." Moira said as she placed the needle into a container in her pocket. "For now, I will focus on studying your condition before taking any steps to curing it." Moira explained. Amelie looked at Moira with surprised eyes.
"So the treatment is easier than the process Talon did to keep me this way?" Amelie asked with surprise, along with Sombra.
"Going off by all the information your file says about how Talon kept you the way you are, I'd say so. Now don't get your hopes up just yet. We may not be able to fully cure you, a lot of the damage appears permanent." Moira paused. "But, tissue color aside, I believe you won't need to rely on that Talon therapy your oxygen levels should normalize overtime if my hypothesis is right." She went further into the topic.
"Thank you, ma'm." Amelie said gratefully.
"Not a problem." Amelie said as she took out out a scalpel and medical pincers and turning to Sombra. "What I'd like to know is how you managed to break down Gabriel's exterior. That must be an interesting story." She said, intrigued and full of curiosity, causing Amelie to look away.
"That's personal." She said.
"I sort of pushed them into each other's arms." Sombra said confidently with a smirk.
"Is that so?" Moira asked, slicing open her wound slightly and pushing the pincers in to retrieve the bullet.
"How come that doesn't hurt?" Sombra asked.
"You forgot to answer my question, and the side effect of what I sprayed you with has a similar effect to morphine." Moira lectured.
"Oh, well, it certainly helps." Sombra said amazed. "Anyway, after escaping Talon and kicking their ass twice, I hinted at both of them to stop being so melodramatic and just get together already." Sombra explained, causing Amelie to frown.
"That explains why their demeanor is so similar, perhaps you thought they were made for each other and played matchmaker?" Moira asked teasingly.
"Please, I regret playing my part in that. They can't get enough of each other and it's been irritating." Said the hacker, before turning to the spider. "No offense." She said, holding a hand up.
"Haha." Amelie fake laughed before flipping her off.
"Well, soon, you won't be able to stand on that leg of an argument." Moira said, catching their attention. "With the way you've introduced yourself to our dark and handsome friend, you may be staking your claim." She teased.
"Please." Sombra chuckled. "I'm just teasing the big guy. It's not everyday a little lady like me gets to be lifted up like a princess by a man three times her size." She smirked with a knowing blush, chuckling in a very dreamy manner.
"Speaking of, where is he? And Gabriel?" Amelie asked.
Gabriel and Akande had made it to the basement of the building and quickly began to hotwire the nearest car they could find. Soon, they were making their way out of the basement parking and were on their way to the store that held the gauntlet.
"So how did you come to Numbani?" Akande asked.
"Want the long or short of it?" Gabriel asked in return.
"Shorter than the long, longer than the short." Akande responded.
"Widowmaker" Gabriel began, but referring to her code name felt somewhat dirty. Tainted. "Examined some files in Talon she shouldn't have. Talon didn't like that and we became private enemy number one." Gabriel made a turn.
"What was she looking for?" Akande interrupted.
"She wanted to look deeper into her own file, mine's, and Sombra's." Akande's eyebrows dipped when Gabriel mentioned the shorter woman. "Quite a handful isn't she?" Gabriel teased.
"That aside, continue your story." Akande dismissed it.
"So we escaped Talon HQ and made our way to L.A., which we're heading back to as soon as we can." He added. "And I was hoping we could go our separate ways. But we neglected Amelie's condition." Gabriel paused, remembering the fear that had coursed through his veins when seeing Amelie in such a state. "We went looking for Moira after that, and we came across a lab of hers and figured out she was targeting you." Gabriel turned to Akande. "Though, looking back on it now...I may have misjudged the situation." He chuckled.
"What do you mean?" Akande wondered.
"Well, at first, we thought that she was going to get rid of you, in order to get to your gauntlet. Apparently she wanted to free you from what I gathered." Gabriel explained.
"You thought she was going to kill me?" Akande looked incredulous at his friend.
"Trust me. I had my reasons for having that as my first thought. I knew at the same time I knew you." He said. "You don't know what she's capable of. You think you're a powerful in public and in private? She's a different breed of maneuvering and assassination." Gabriel shook in place, remembering the countless experiments she performed on the prisoners of Blackwatch.
"I see. So I am to consider myself lucky?" Akande scoffed at the idea of fortune by chance. He was a man of calculations by and for the self.
"Let me tell you, Akande, a not even I want to anger her. Whatever deal she offered you in escaping, you would be a wise man to have taken it." Gabriel looked back at the road. "Anyway. We were originally looking for her. But with you in the picture, and the way things are turning out, I'm hopeful we can have you on board for the future." Gabriel said.
"Well, I might as well. These last few hours have been the most interesting coming out of prison. What else am I to do?" Akande asked. "So why are you seeking out Moira?"
"We were hoping she could help us with Amelie's condition." Gabriel answered.
"I've been meaning to ask you about that." He said. "What is the deal with you and the purple woman? It seems more than just a working relationship." He pointed out.
"I..." Gabriel was not sure if should open up to his friend on this subject just yet, but noticed that they arrived at the store. "We're here. I'll explain on the way back." He changed the subject and took out his Hellfires and Akande cracked his knuckles.
"Let's go." He said, eager to reunited with his weapon.