Q again. Happy New Year. Here's something that Jade actually wrote herself before her accident. Decided to post this since I just showed how the real Sombra and 9/11 worked together. If you haven't already guessed, Agent 9/11 is going to be one of the main antagonists in this series, despite having no speaking roles. Imagine him as the Boba Fett of the story.
Tell me what you guys think of him.
Volskaya Industries, a Russian company involved in Svyatogor mech production, with Katya Volskaya as its CEO. In more recent times, in light of increased aggression from the Siberian omnium, the company increased production. Shortly after Guillermo Portero stepped down as CEO of LumériCo, however, Volskaya experienced a security breach in its network.
And this is how it happened.
"Huh, I thought this was supposed to be the most advanced security system on the planet." A woman in her 30's says as she seemingly appears out of nowhere, deactivating her cloaking device to reveal herself. She has a half mohawk hairstyle, a device engraved at back of her skull and head, signifying her cybernetic nature, an all purple suit and more cybernetics on her hands and body.
"We don't have all day. Hurry up!" Widowmaker complained through the woman's radio as she plays with the holographic images in front of her. However, instead of responding to the sniper, this "hacker" noticed a locked file among all these images. As she takes it and encrypts through the locks and safeguards, she sees... very interesting information.
"Enough. Sombra, do you have satellite?" Reaper shouted to stop the two ladies as he asks their hacker, Sombra.
Sombra rolls her eyes but retains a smirk as she pulls up a map for herself as she says, "Of course!"
Outside the Volskaya Industries main facility is the Talon Trio: Reaper. Widowmaker and their newest member, Agent 9/11, who has proven himself to be skilled enough to have a bigger role in Talon's plans.
"Are you certain the target is on-site?" Widowmaker double checks with Sombra through radio as she holds her rifle in her arms while Reaper has both of his shotguns in hand. Meanwhile, Agent 9/11 loads his MG4 laser machine gun with the battery ammunition he brought with it.
"Oh she's here, alright." Sombra replies through her radio. She was silent for a moment, but during that she was actually watching the live footage of their target so that she can give the cue to enter the facility. "Okay. You're in." Sombra alerts them as she opens the door to the inside, with Widowmaker nodding at her teammates and heading in first, Reaper in his smoke-like form following and 9/11 simply running behind them.
Inside was simply stairs and a single guard, who gets surprised by Widowmaker and Reaper suddenly going past him to get at the next floor. He was about to alert his squad through radio, but 9/11, his gun now on his back, grabs him from behind, covering his mouth as he pulls out a knife and lunges it towards the guard's heart.
All Widowmaker and Reaper heard while they wait for the next door to open was a small struggling scream and a stabbing noise. Once 9/11 joins them, the door opens, courtesy of Sombra's hacking, and they all exit, heading to their respective positions: Widowmaker on a crane to get a better sniping position, Reaper to the very front door to the facility for in case the sniper fails and goes for a straight ambush and 9/11 heads... somewhere.
No one but himself and one other person knows his exact orders.
Meanwhile, surrounded by her bodyguards, a woman in white exits the elevator they took to get to this lower section of her facility to do one last inspection. This is none other than Katya Volskaya, owner of Volskaya Industries and hero of Russia.
As she walks up the stairs leading to the testing center of her facility, one of her employees approach, saying, "Chairman Volskaya. The new guidance systems. They will be the difference in destroying the hated omnics. Its-"
"Tell me we're still on schedule. Theomnium will not wait for us to be ready before they attack again." Katya interrupted him as she approached a medium sized mech piloted by one of her soldiers, who activates it for his boss. "Our first new mechs in a decade. This will ensure the future of Russia." Katya expressed her thoughts for her men as he reaches out for the Particle Cannon of the machine, as if she's seeing an angel for the first time.
Widowmaker, in position on a crane, has her recon visor activated, highlighting everyone behind a wall with red but she has Katya Volskaya specifically in her sights as she watches the chairman reach out for the mech's weapon.
However, even when she finally has a clear shot as Katya's head is now visible for her to shoot, she doesn't fire. For some reason, she's hesitating. She doesn't know what's holding her back as her hand on her gun's handle and trigger is shaking.
But why? She's supposed to be an assassin. No hesitation in killing her targets. How–
That's when she gets a pain in her head as she saw an image flash through her memories: a boy, a few years younger than her, reaching out for his hand, smiling. She can see her own hand reaching out to him to take his hand...
...but her hand is of normal skin color, not her usual blue.
With the image blinding her, she closed her eyes and accidentally fired a shot from her gun, but it completely misses Katya.
Katya nearly got shot as a bullet passed by near her ear. Her guards immediately go up to her to cover her as the alarms blare and red lights flash all over the facility.
Upon seeing the stealth sniping was a failure, Reaper growls and reaches for his earpiece, telling his squad, "Widowmaker, hold the perimeter! We'll take over!"
Upon saying so, the door beside him is about to close but he managed to sneak in by using his astral form and going inside faster. Once infiltrated, Reaper reforms himself and goes in guns blazing as he shoots down any opposition he sees with his dual shotguns.
Two attemp to shoot him but he was a faster draw as he blasted them easily. One was posted on a higher ground but got shot by Reaper before he could even do anything. As Reaper aims for the last one, this man immediately got terrified and attempted to run, but ran into a giant mech's foot instead, knocking himself out. With that in mind, Reaper aims his gun at another target: Katya, who just got back into the elevator with her bodyguards. Her eyes widened as she sees the murderer aim his gun at him, with clear intent and no hesitation to kill her.
Unfortunately for Reaper, and fortunately for Katya, just as Reaper fires his gun, the piloted mech earlier uses it's left arm shield projector to block the shots.
Reaper looked at the giant from it's feet to the pilot driving it on it's head in slight fear. His spaced out trance was an opening for the pilot as he backhands Reaper away with the same arm, sending the murderer flying into a wall.
"9/11, Sombra, I'm cut off! It's on you two now!" Reaper commanded as he holds his gut in pain while he struggles to stand up from the attack.
"We're all over it! Let's go, Nine-y!" Sombra says through her radio, even giving a nickname to her newfound friend.
Meanwhile, back at the crane, Widowmaker just sits at what used to be her sniping position, her rifle resting on her left thigh as her right leg is crossed atop her left while she massages her temples with her right hand.
She shook her head to get the flashes to stop and, once they did, she leans her head back against something solid to rest.
These memory flashes are getting worse each week and it's frustrating her to no end. She knows the only answer to get some closure and find her lost past. With such a tight schedule, she barely gets the time anymore.
And the only other people that know about her search is Ben and Sombra...
...the other Sombra.
After activating a small lift for her and 9/11 to use to rise up to the catwalks, Sombra leaps to the first catwalk they see as 9/11 remains on the lift and provides cover fire for Sombra, putting his machine gun to use as he shoots incoming forces.
Once Sombra gets on the catwalk properly, 9/11 joins her and they run to where Katya is headed: her office.
Katya, being escorted by her guards, stops momentarily upon seeing the two assassins heading for her. The widening of her eyes is clear indication of her fear as her guards force her to keep moving to keep her safe.
Sombra looked at her for a moment before smirking and looking back at her partner. They nod at each other and kept running, Sombra giving a small, round device to 9/11, who sticks the device on his back.
Two soldiers run at them and are about to open fire, but 9/11 uses what seems to be a small gun attached to his left gauntlet that fires two darts at the enemy, the darts seemingly stopping the soldiers from moving as Sombra, with her own machine pistol, and the other agent shoots them both down, effectively killing them.
As Katya is prepping for the retinal scan for her to access the door to her office, one of her many guards see the assassin duo still heading for their location. "All mechs! Fire on catwalk, level three!" He requested from the mechs down below.
One of them, which is currently fighting Reaper, looks away from his opponent and looks up, aiming his particle cannon at the specific catwalk where Sombra and 9/11 is. Upon firing, he cuts the catwalk from both sides, effectively making the middle part fall with the two of them still on it.
The two assassins are about to plummet to their death until Sombra noticed that they're conveniently falling beside a colossal mech's detached arm, currently under repair.
She uses her hacking tech by simply touching the arm as her "virus" spreads across it, making it move. But before they could fall on it's palm, 9/11 suddenly grabs her by her arm and, with all his inhuman strength, throws her upward and onto the platform leading to Katya's office, surprising her and her soldiers.
"Huh... Super strong and super mysterious... my kind of guy." Sombra whispers to herself as she uses her cloaking device to suddenly become invisible as she makes the arm she hacked earlier stop 9/11 from falling.
Katya's guards started panicking as two of them enter Katya's office with her as the rest of them guard outside.
"Where did she go? Find her!" One of them said as the door closes.
Before they could "find" Sombra, however, 9/11 appears from below after Sombra helped him up with the mech's arm. The soldiers all open fire on him but the bullets simply flatten themselves upon impact on his armor and helmet.
When they stop firing, either from running out of bullets or getting shocked from 9/11's unfazed state, said terrorist pulls out his combat knife and runs at all of them.
Katya kept catching her breath as she rests her hands on her office table while her guards follow her. The three get startled when they hear screams of agony and death emanate from other side of the office's door. Alongside the screams are stabbing noises, bones breaking and blood splatting.
It cannot be denied that fear is what the three people in the room is experiencing right at this moment. "Get the helicopter ready... Now..." Katya calmly but tiredly told one of her soldiers, who nod...
...just as Sombra de-cloaks and appears in between the two soldiers, catching them off guard. She disarms one of them, shoots him with his own gun, smacks the next one with the but of the same rifle then, once he was down on the ground, she shoots him. With both obstacles down, Sombra turns and aims her gun right at Katya's head as she drops the rifle.
Katya could only stare at the barrel of the gun aimed at her as she is unable to do anything else as the assassin in front of her is about to kill her...
...until...
"Ha! You have no idea what it took for me to make this meeting happen." Sombra casually tells Katya as she puts away her gun. Katya is shaking her head in confusion as she looks at Sombra with a brow raised, to which Sombra responds with a roll of her eyes and says, "Relájate, I'm not going to kill you! I mean, I'm the one who set off the alarm."
Katya attempted to put on a calm demeanor but deep inside, she's still confused, angry and terrified at the same time.
"Okay, listen. I'm here to make a friend. I'll show you something I found." Sombra proposed to the woman as she brings up a holographic image...
...and it shows a gif of a chibi person wearing a black cloak and a skull candy mask, dancing to a music playing titled "Thriller".
Katya got even more confused while Sombra became irritated, knowing who is doing this. "Ah hehe... Give me a minute." Sombra tells Katya, "grabbing" the screen and turning around to speak to someone.
"Niña! What did I say about messing with my hacks?! ...No, it's only fun when I do it... You put back the images this instant or you're grounded! ...Noooo. Mamá is working, now go hack someone else. Ugh..." Sombra finished her conversation with the person as the image on the holographic screen returns and she turns back to Katya.
Now, the images on screen are pictures of Katya taking incredible pieces of technology from the very Omnics they consider their enemy. "Now, where were we? Ah, sí! Tell me, what would happen if the people of Russia learned that their 'defender against the omnics' was actually getting her tech from the enemy?" Sombra threatened Katya as she sits on her table to be beside her.
Katya knows of what she's done and she can't deny it, but she doesn't want to be exposed either. These images aren't edited or fake. She was there when these were taken. They're the real deal.
To put salt on Katya's already big wound, Sombra grabs a nearby framed picture of what seems to be a young girl, maybe the age of 9, and looks like a younger Katya...
... It's Katya's daughter. "What would that do to the future of Russia?" Sombra asks as she hands the picture to Katya, who takes as she looks at the image of her beautiful daughter. "Pick the right choice, amiga. Trust me. I know what you're going through." She added, somehow, her tone becoming more sympathetic than threatening.
"...What... do you want?" Katya asks, now, no longer terrified or confused. Now, she's serious.
"The most powerful woman in Russia? Hah, I've always wanted a friend like that!" Sombra chirped as she gets off the table and pumps her fists excitedly. When she turns back around, Sombra smiles as she gathers the holographic images into her hands and adds, "So I'm thinking, I don't let these images appear on every holovid in the world and you help out your new friend every now and then. What do you say?"
Katya could only scowl as she stares at Sombra eye to eye. "As if I had a choice... What now..." Katya says looking back at her daughter's photo before turning back to Sombra. "...friend?"
Sombra smirks as she walks closer to Katya. "I'll be in touch." She says, before she suddenly pressds Katya's nose with her finger, making a noise with her mouth. "Boop!" She says as she disappears in thin air.
Sombra suddenly appears out through the device 9/11 put on his back, stretching her arms as if she did a lot of lifting.
She turns around to look at hdr other friend, only to see him sitting on top a pile of dead soldiers as he throws up and catches his knife up and down. "Overkill, much?" Sombra asks.
9/11 didn't respond, like usual.
Sombra rolled her eyes in amusement as she touches her earpiece and contacts Reaper, saying, "Mission failed. Target escaped."
"Grrrr... get back to the ship..." Reaper replied grumpily.
Sombra then takes off her earpiece as she stretches once more, when something occurred to her...
"I should buy some bread for Isabella when I get home..."
Hours later, Agent 9/11 is summoned by Talon's leader. As he stands alone in a cylindrical room with a familiar gigantic screen on one spot for 9/11 to look at, said screen finally turned on and showed only the sound frequency of the distorted voice of their leader.
"Have you done your task?"
9/11 nods.
"Good. Now, your next order is to find the one known as Alexandra Zaryanova. Eliminate her... and bring her weapon to me."
He nods once more.
"Oh... And bring that Sombra woman with you. Keep an eye on her and be on your guard. She has no idea who... or what you are. I'll send Seven Seven as back up just in case you fail."
And the agent nods once more.
To be continued...
