Amélie was sprinting inside the base trying to warn someone that Talon was here. Before she found anyone suddenly alarms were lighting up the base before the automated voice Athena popped up on the intercom.
"ALERT ALERT INTRUDERS INBOUND ALERT ALERT."
Just like clockwork the entire base mobilized to their stations. Trobjorn was in the armory passing weapons to everyone passing by before he got into position to set up his turrets. Reinhardt, Brigitte and Pharah were suiting up in their armor. Everyone was double checking their weapons and equipment and getting into positions to defend the base.
Amélie sprinted back to Chris' room where Sombra came outside to see what was going on.
"It's Talon! They're here! I don't know how they knew but they are here!" Amélie yelped out in a panic.
"How did they know we were here?" Sombra asked with a puzzled and surprised look on her face.
"We have to get out of here we can't stay. I won't go back!" Amélie grabbed Sombra by the shoulders and shook her slightly. She was still trying to control her emotions which were difficult for her to do these days.
"We won't be going back, but we can't leave either." Sombra said going to her bag and pulling out her smg.
Chris came running inside seeing Sombra had armed herself. Sombra looked back at him almost scared he was going to say something about her having a weapon this entire time.
"Good we are going to need all the help we can get." Chris smiled and looked over to Amélie, "Including you. This looks like a formidable force they have coming here we can't spare any help at this point." Chris began to get his gear on to run to battle as well.
"I..I don't think I'll be much help out there." Amélie said looking down to her hands.
"Nonsense, you're better in CQB than me and Genji, you've got a better shot than Captain Amari from what I've heard, and your faster than your average sprinter." Chris smiled at her and motioned for her to follow him. They all sprinted to the armory where Chris picked up some extra armor for the other two and a sniper rifle for Amélie.
"Let's go meet up with the others before-" He was cut off by the sounds and rumbles of what felt like a small earthquake. "Shit they're already landing." Chris gave the other two earpieces. "Here stay in contact. Amélie take the high ground, Sombra you're with me." The two of them nodded and made their way outside the landing pad where the sounds of gunfire were becoming louder and louder.
a battalion of bastion units with a handful of OR15's were making their approach to inside one of the hangars. The barrage of bullets were being blocked off by the shield of Reinhardt. "HA! Is that all!" He yelled out pushing in closer to the units. Torbjorn had his turrets firing at the bastion units taking them down slowly but surely. The OR units were sturdy enough to keep on the attack.
Reinhardt lowered his shield and swung a wildly with his hammer, crushing all of the bastion units in front of him. He turned and threw a fire strike that took down a whole line of units making quick work of the robots. He lowered his shoulder as the jets on the back of his armor ignited, propelling him at an incredible rate crushing everything in his path. "FOR GLORY!" He yelled finally pinning one of the larger units to thewall crushing it instantly. He turned and dropped his hammer in immense force "HAMMER DOWN!" The ground beneath them shook, as the army lost their balance and dropped to the ground.
"Rocket barrage inbound!" Pharah let loose her whole arsenal, destroying everything that was in her path. The victory was short lived as she landed next to Reinhardt to take cover behind his shield as tanks were rolling up blasting away.
"I can't hold it much longer." Reinhardt grunted out losing his ground as his barrier was starting to break under barrage of shells.
"We need backup at the south hangar! There's too many of them!" Pharah yelled into her communicator.
Chris and Sombra heard that and started sprinting to the hangars on the south side of the base. They came through on the higher level seeing the three pinned down by incoming units.
"Stay up here I'll handle this," Sombra said as she cloaked herself and disappeared. Chris tried giving them as much covering fire as possible to draw some of the attention away. Suddenly one of the front tanks stopped firing, made a 180 and started firing at the other units. They started firing at each other in confusion. Reinhardt and Pharah took advantage of all the confusion and charged in while Torbjorn placed more turrets down to reinforce their firepower. Pharah took to the sky and fired her rocket launcher down at the robots while Reinhardt crushed all of the front line. They made quick work of the remainder units. Sombra uncloaked and gave a little wave to the three.
"Nice job there." Reinhardt said giving her a nod. "The south hangar is secure, how are things on your end?"
"They're advancing past the outside defenses!" Morrison yelled back into the comm.
Morrison, Reyes and Ana, were positioned on some high ground poking shots at the line of robots marching their way in closer.
"We'll need to fall back, they will over run us easily if we stay here." Reyes said to Morrison as they started to retreat back into the base. "We'll set up at the end of this hall way, it will serve as a good choke point to defend." They all sprinted back and took cover behind the door way waiting for the robots to funnel their way in. Sure enough they clanks of their marching was heard as they came closer to the hall. The hall way was only big enough for them to march three wide inside. Eve as they were funneled in at the doorway they were still advancing their position.
"We need back up over here!" Ana yelled into the communicator.
Brigitte was with and Jamison as they heard this and were making their way to back up the others. got into her mech and starting flying in the skies and was taking shots at the robots trying to draw their attention away. Brigitte and Jamison were making their way on foot when they came across and unsettling sight.
They saw Talon marked armor on a squad of heavily armed soldiers dropping from the roof inside the building.
"Blimey! Talon's inside!" Jamison yelled which caught the attention of the soldiers who turned to fire at him. Brigitte stepped in front putting her small shield up to protect the two from the gunfire.
"We're cut off we can't get to you!" Brigitte said as the two were forced to back up and give up ground to the onslaught of fire coming their way.
Amélie was listening in to all the yelling over the communicator and tried to see if she could get a sight line on the Talon soldiers. She aimed up and scoped in her rifle to see through a window where Brigitte was backing up. She moved her scope to the left to find a couple of sights of the soldiers advancing their position. She waited patiently for one of them to pop their heads up which sure enough one did. She inhaled deep and slowly exhaled as she squeezed the trigger and just like that..POW. One soldier falls with a hole in his head, the window shattering next to him. The rest of the soldiers looked and took cover. Brigitte took this opening to rush them as Jamison started firing his gun too. As soon as anyone of the soldiers came into Amélie's sights she would pop their heads.
Brigitte rushed in shield bashing one to the ground and swung her flail around, knocking the others off their feet before she leaped out of the way for Jamison to finish them off. Before one of them took their final breath, he said into his communicator, "Target is on the roof." With that he slumped his head against the wall. Brigitte looked out the window and saw Amélie standing up propping her rifle up on her shoulder. "Watch out they're after-" She was cut off by Doomfist sucker punching her across the hall knocking her out cold. Jamison looked at him stunned for a minute but before he could do anything, Doomfist launched himself at Jamison and cold cocked him, knocking him out too. He looked at the two unconscious heroes. He picked Brigitte up by her collar and shook her awake.
"I'm only going to ask you once. Where is Widowmaker?"
Brigitte coughed up a little blood as she tried to gather her bearings. "I..I don't know who that is."
"Then you are no use to me." Doomfist loaded his fist for a final strike. Amélie saw this happening from her roof top. She took a few steps back to get a running start, before she went into a full sprint leaping from the rooftop. She shot her grapple and swung into the window, kicking Doomfist back dropping Brigitte. She took a defensive stance motioning Brigitte to go away. Brigitte took a stance next to her giving her a silent shake. She held her flail waiting for Doomfist to strike.
"You're pretty easy to find, Widowmaker." Doomfist said getting to his feet and looking at the two on the other side of the hall.
"I'm not going back!" Amélie yelled at him.
"Oh don't worry," Doomfist said walking towards the two, "I have no intention of bringing you back alive." With that he charged at them again. The two went to opposite sides of the hall avoiding his punch.
"Doomfist is here we need help!" Brigitte yelled into her communicator.
Chris and Sombra both looked at each other thinking the same thing. Shit. Reinhardt wasted no time running to help his apprentice out Chris and Sombra following the crusader's footsteps.
Brigitte swung her flail and hit Doomfist around. Doomfist caught her flail with his mechanical hand after a couple of swings grinning at her. He crushed it in his hand before bringing up his other hand and pointing it in her face.
"Look out!" Amélie yelled as she dove and tackled Brigitte out of the way before a shotgun spread fired from Doomfist's other hand, just barely missing the two. Doomfist cocked his fist back looking to strike again. This time he struck Amélie pinning her against the wall. She let out a loud grunt in pain being pinned looking up at Akande with a look full of fury.
"You have no idea how long I've waited for this, annoying little insect." Akande said grabbing her by the throat and lifting her up still against the wall. He started tightening his grip around her neck. Amélie saw Brigitte give a little nod to which Amélie stabbed Akande in his side with a retractable blade, the same kind Chris had. Akande winced in pain dropping her immediately, followed by Brigitte shield bashing him away from her. Brigitte helped Amélie up as they both turned to escape the situation, picking up Jamison along the way. Doomfist staggered back to his feet seeing the three run away.
Moira and her entourage of soldiers came to Doomfist's aide.
"She ran away that way." Doomfist said
"This is already taking too long. We need to get her and get out now." Moira said spraying Doomfist's wound healing it.
"Agreed." The two started following the trail of the three that escaped through the doorway.
The three were taking cover behind some boxes in the nearest hangar Brigitte was tending to Jamison who was finally starting to come around. Amélie was grabbing her ribs wincing in pain trying to keep an eye out for Doomfist. "We need to group with the others. We are no match for him on our own." Amélie said propping herself up against the boxes. Just as she said that the entourage of Moira and Doomfist came in the hangar scouting the area. Amélie and Brigitte hunkered down to stay out of sight.
"She's here somewhere." Moira said. Just as the three were thinking about making their escape, one of the soldiers found them hiding and drew his weapon to them.
"Over here ma'am." He motioned for them to get up and get into sight. They followed his order and got up keeping their hands in the air. Amélie struggled to keep her hands up with her pain in her side but obliged to the order.
"Ah well it would seem my tracker came in handy. You had to have known I would have some sort of failsafe to find my most prized project." Moira said walking over to her tapping her on her head.
Just then Chris, Sombra, and Reinhardt came busting through the door forcing everyone to turn to them all drawing their weapons, the Talon soldiers taking Brigitte and Jamison at gunpoint. The situation was tense, no one wanted to make any sudden moves.
"You boys know what time it is." A voice called up from the rafters. Everyone looked up to see McCree standing on the high ground with his hand hovering above his revolver. He took one last puff from his cigar and exhaled the smoke.
"It's high noon."
In the blink of an eye he drew his weapon from its holster firing all 6 shots taking out all the guards holding the three at gun point plus three more that surrounded Moira. Like signaling a race to start Everyone engaged. Reinhardt and Chris charged at Doomfist, with Reinhardt pinning Doomfist with his charge. Among all the chaos going on, Amélie, Brigitte, and Jamison all took cover. Amélie took out her sniper that was slung over her back and looked to find some high ground.
"You two go for back up...ugh..we'll keep them at bay here." Amélie said loading up her grapple trying to push through the pain. The other two nodded and went for reinforcements. She then grappled to the rafters next to McCree who was trying to take pop shots where he could.
Looking at her McCree remembered their last encounter and pointed his weapon at her. She froze seeing the barrel of his gun pointed in her direction. Both of them at a stand still. Amélie broke the silence first "Duck!" She yelled as she brought her sniper up to scope. McCree rolled out of her line of sight and in a split second Amélie shot a Talon soldier who was sneaking up on him. McCree went wide eyed at how accurate the shot was in such a short time she had to process the situation.
Reinhardt and Chris were smaking Doomfist around as he was having a hard time dealing with the combination of the agility from Chris, combined with the brute strength of Reinhardt. But he finally got wise to their one two punch. He cocked his fist back and gave Reinhardt a huge uppercut sending him flying back. Then he transitioned to a ground pound rocking Chris off balance. While he had the upper hand Doomfist punched Chris backwards sending him into the wall. "Pathetic insects." He muttered looking up to the rafters seeing where Amélie was. With all of the chaos going Moira retreated out of the hangar trying to flee.
Doomfist propelled himself to the walkway McCree and Amélie were on drawing the attention of both of them. Amélie immediately swayed her rifle to scope in on him firing almost instantly. The shot flew past his head as he charged full force at the two. McCree unloaded his peacekeeper to try and slow him down, but Doomfist blocked all the shots with his gauntlet and brushed him aside having his sights set on Amélie. McCree was knocked from the rafters and started to fall from being knocked off and Amélie saw it happening. She shot her grapple and hooked McCree's leg the weight slamming her against the railing saving him from falling to his death. She was struggling to support his weight. She knew Doomfist was right behind her but she couldn't let go of her hold on McCree.
"The Dragon becomes me!"
Doomfist turned around and saw Genji charging with his sword drawn charging at him. He slashed away but Doomfist was blocking all of his strikes and tried fending him off. Amélie took this chance to gently lower McCree the rest of the way down until he was safely on the ground. She turned and picked up her rifle and turned to take a shot at Doomfist but couldn't get a good angle on him.
"Enough of this!" Doomfist yelled out as Genji charged in for another strike. he caught his blade and broke it in his hand and kicked him off the rafters. He caught the end of the shattered blade and charged back at Amélie and stabbed her in the gut. He pulled her close to his face and said close to her ear. "The council sends their regards." He pushed off the rafters as she fell to the ground with the edge of the blade still in her. Doomfist jumped down landing next to Moira who was backing up from the fight. "We are done here lets go!" Moira scowled at him but had no choice to go against his call. Just like that the entire Talon force that had invaded was in full retreat.
Chris ran up to Amélie who was whimpering in pain from the wound and fighting tears back in her eyes. Chris eyes shot down to the blade sticking out of her. He dropped to his knees and wrapped his hands around the blade.
"Don't remove it! She won't make it if you take it out now!" Sombra yelled running over to his side. Everyone in the area was walking over forming a small circle.
"We need to get her to Angela now. Someone help me keep her steady." Chris said. No one stepped forward. "Come on guys! she's bleeding out!" Finally McCree's clinking sound of his boots came up behind him.
"On three kid." And just like that they hoisted her up, Chris holding her upper body while McCree took the lower half. "If you could get the door for us I would greatly appreciate it." McCree said to Genji who was standing outside the circle. With that they rushed her to the medical ward.
They rushed through the doors and placed her on one of the medical beds. McCree went on the intercom. "Angie we need you here right away!" Chris was by Amélie side trying to comfort her as much as he could, but she was in immense pain.
Angela and some surgeons finally rushed in telling McCree and Chris to get out for them to do their work. "I'll be here when you wake up." Chris said to her stroking her hair as they exited the medical room. Both McCree and Chris were sitting outside in the waiting room both of them pretty beat up. Chris turned to look at McCree's mechanical arm.
"That's new." Chris said drawing a little chuckle from McCree as he looked at it too.
"Courtesy of your girl in there." McCree replied back.
"Yea, my girl." Chris said under his breath. He knew this would only push the conflict between Talon and Overwatch even more, but this time he was practically in the middle of it.