Amelie and Gabriel's' eyes shot wide open as they heard Victoria's cries. Gabriel looked to his side to see what disturbed her, whereas Amelie, from where she was stared up at Jack's orange glowing visors. Instinctively she shot her fist forward to jab him in the throat, only for him to have anticipated it and cuff her wrist to the headboard.
At the sudden shift from her side, Gabriel turned to look at Amelie and saw his once best friend turned enemy. His eyes contracted in a mix of fear and anger at the sight before him. Jack turned to look at Gabriel and the familiar face sent a shockwave of confusion into his being.
"Gabriel-huck!" Jack was not able to complete his question as Gabriel shot a punch into his face, breaking his visors into pieces, dematerializing into a black cloud and jumping over Amelie and rushing onto Jack, pushing them both out of the window and both falling down two floors onto the concrete floor.
"You're not going to take them away from me!" Gabriel shouted as he wrapped his fingers around Jack's throat, activating his decay ability to kill him faster. Not hesitating to kill him now that he was in front of him and had gotten so close to his family already.
But to his surprise, Jack wasn't dying, his decay was not affecting him at all. In fact, Jack began to glow like gold and materialized and his arms materialized into something dust-like and wrapped around his, ripping them off from his hold on his throat and sending him flying up in the air and onto the roof of the building they were just in.
Jack slammed Gabriel onto the roof, punching Gabriel's face, only for him to lift his legs up and lock them onto Jack's chest and bringing him down onto the roof and gripping his legs into a lock. Gabriel was sure that he had Jack in a tight hold, until Jack became a dust cloud and away from Gabriel. Gabriel frowned as he saw that he now had a similar ability as him. Gabriel quickly became his cloud of black smoke and went after Jack.
The both of them engaged in a aerial dogfight that could be described as a spectacle of light and dark attempting to gain control of the other. Due to the countering abilities of their powers, they were able to land hits on one another's body as if their physical bodies were still there. Until they switched over to their weapons. Shooting rapid fire and concentrated blasts into one another with killing intent.
"Die!" Gabriel yelled into the night sky as he tried to use his Death Blossom against Jack. Jack, however, took his attack without taking any damage, as his new ability now allowed him to heal mid combat. When Gabriel felt himself tire of using as many of his abilities at once, Jack swooped into grip Gabriel's chest and nullifying his shadowstep ability and firing three rounds into throughout his midsection. "Ugh..." Gabriel's face paled as this pain was real. Not healed, not protected from armor, or defended by his ability at all. But three actual bullets pierced his body and exited out of him.
"It's over, Gabriel. You lost." Jack said as Gabriel's ability began to run out and he began to plunge back down to the ground, Jack repositioned himself behind Gabriel and twisted his arm behind his back. Once they landed, it was Gabriel who took the brunt of the fall damage as Jack used him as a landing pad. They had managed to land somewhere in the middle of the woods away from the town, but relatively close to the lake.
Jack cuffed a beaten and bleeding Gabriel and propped him against a tree, noticing he no longer had his comm link, he instead sent their coordinates on his phone to Ana, as well as where Amelie was. Ana replied that she received his message and messaged back that her and the rest of the group would arrive to his location with everyone else.
"I was not expecting you to be here." Jack said, huffing and struggling to regain his breathing after using his ability in excess. "But I'm glad I did." Jack said as he walked up to Gabriel. "Because you have a lot to answer for, bastard." Jack hit Gabriel with the butt of his rifle. "Look at you. Don't you look like you aged well." He hit him again. "Is that Moira's work, huh?" Again. Gabriel looked back up and spat blood on his vest. Jack looked back at the face of a man who held nothing but rage and contempt at him. "I should have put a bullet in your skull long ago." Jack threatened.
"But you didn't!" Gabriel shouted back. "And you still haven't." He said, before Jack walked up to him and jabbed his finger into his bullet wounds. "Augh!" He screamed in pain.
"Oh come on, Gabe, you can handle this, I know you dished harsher punishments back in Blackwatch when interrogating." Jack growled, twisting his finger, causing Gabriel to grit his teeth to prevent himself from screaming out, before Jack let go. "You know. I could heal those wounds of yours if I wanted to." Jack made his fist glow. "But I won't." He said before the glow faded. "Because a dog like you deserves all the abuse you'll get before you're put down." Jack said.
"It won't work." Gabriel wheezed as he spat out blood. "Whatever healing you've got, it won't work regardless." Gabriel admitted.
"What?" Jack frowned wrapping his hands around Gabriel's neck. "You're just saying this to get me to try it." Jack said.
"I'm not!" Gabriel coughed. "What do you want anyway?" He asked.
"You're going to tell me everything I want to know once everyone else arrives.
"What?" It was Gabriel's turn to look confused.
"I followed you and the rest of your little group into that Bed and Breakfast. We waited until it was night time. I had you pegged as a hostage. Maybe Doomfist and Widowmaker had some plans for you, but apparently you're a part of this as well." Jack revealed. "You think I'd be stupid to have done this alone?" Jack smirked.
"You've been stupid in different ways in the past." Gabriel shot back, with a dark grin of his own, Jack backhanded him.
"You think you're in a position to make any fucking jokes?!" Jack growled. "Face it Gabriel! You lost! You and whatever little team you have are all captured and they're all being brought out here." Jack said.
"What?!" Gabriel recovered from the backhand and looked at Jack in concern, for Victoria's and Amelie's sake
"They're being brought over here now. And you're going to tell us everything I need to know." Jack said.
"And then what?" Gabriel asked, fearing the answer.
"And then you will all be put down." Jack revealed. Upon hearing this, Gabriel attempted to push himself off the tree he was propped against to headbutt Jack, only for him to sidestep it and falling forward.
"You will not harm any of them!" Gabriel spat.
"What do you care?" Jack remained calm. "You've never cared about anyone after I became Strike Commander." Jack said. "Don't tell me any of them mean something to you!" Jack lost it once more. "Not after all the damage you've done." He heaved as he kicked him while he was down.
"They will always matter a lot more than any of you ever did!" Gabriel said. "You leave them out of this!" He said protectively. Jack looked down at him, with a surprise look in his face.
"Fuck me, you really do care about them." Jack said, kneeling down to Gabriel. "You really fucking care about them." Jack scoffed before frowning.
"Can I at least get dressed better, puta?" Sombra, in a towel, frowned as Tracer aimed her pistols as she exited out of the bathroom. Angela having cuffed Moira and following close behind.
"Whatever it is you called me, I'll let it slide for now." Lena said as she pushed her. "And no, you'll have to walk the way you are." She scowled. Just then, from Akande's room, walked out Winston who carried Akande over his shoulder with Ana close behind.
"We have our target do you have yours?" Ana asked as she made her way in front of Winston only for the two of them to look surprised at Sombra and Moira. "So she's here too. I should have known." Ana frowned.
"Amari, it's been so long. We should get a cup of tea to catch up." Moira smirked. "For old time's sake."
"I do not waste good tea on the likes of you." Ana said, before being interrupted by the sound of a baby crying.
"The baby." Winston said as he heard it. "Did Jack not save it yet?" He asked.
"Calm yourself." Ana said. "Ziegler," She turned to Angela. "go check to see if the child is alright." She took control of Moira's cuffs. "I'll take her." She said.
"Fine." Angela said as she walked out to Gabriel and Amelie's room. As she opened it, she noticed that Jack's earpiece fell off at the door and then saw Amelie's hand cuffed to the bed, attempting to reach over to Victoria. Amelie's eyes shot at the door and with a glare, resided herself to be captured.
"Release me. I will not put up a fight. I just want to hold my child." She said. Angela looked at the scene conflicted and looked behind her to Ana and the others discussing among themselves. She clearly remembered what they all told her about Amelie. But now the baby was factored in. She debated to herself to do what Amelie said, or fear that this could be a trap by the Widowmaker again. She looked around the room and noticed that there were no weapons Amelie could use against her if she was freed. Reluctantly, Angela tossed her one of the keys to release her, whilst aiming her pistol at her.
"You will go to her and hold her, and walk out into the hallway." Angela said, Amelie nodded, carefully unlocking herself from the cuffs, getting up slowly, not breaking eye contact with Angela and walking over to the crib and picking up her daughter and holding her in her arms. Angela gestured at her to walk out into the hallway, moving out of the way for her. Amelie carefully walked out of the bedroom, holding a crying Victoria in her arms as tears threatened to leave her as well once she saw the rest of her team was captured.
"Ziegler!" Ana yelled as she aimed her pistol at Amelie. "What the hell are you thinking giving the child to Widowmaker?!" She asked furiously. Before Angela could explain herself, Amelie spoke up.
"She's my daughter." Amelie said, kissing Victoria's head to sooth her crying.
"Don't you lie to me." Ana said, walking up to her and threatening to shoot her. "Give the child to Ziegler, now." She demanded as Amelie's tears of anger and anxiety began to shed. She looked defiantly at Ana and clutched Victoria closer in her arms.
"No." She said with all the fear in the world behind her eyes. Ana frowned, Moira and Sombra wanted to speak up, but knew the risk.
"Leave the child with her." Angela said, everyone turning to her. "It's her daughter and it will slow her down from attempting an escape. Regardless, I doubt she'll make because she won't want to put her in danger." Angela reasoned. The room was silent for a while longer.
"Fine. But she goes in the front ahead of all of us." Ana said, Amelie nodded quickly, for the sake of her teammates and daughter. They all began to make their way out of the building, and towards where Jack gave Ana the coordinates.
Amelie, being ahead of them all, let loose all of her tears without sobbing, thinking that they were so close to being in their own home across the lake, only to be captured and taken away to who knew where. She glanced at her childhood summer home across the lake, beautifully shining under the moonlight, the image looking like a dream she knew could never have been obtainable. As she looked behind her, she feared the worst for what was ahead of them all. All she could do now, was hold Victoria in comfort and pray that they could all make it out of this somehow.