The Singularity was propelling itself at mach speeds throughout France, looking for any leads as to where the Talon rejects were. It escaped the French authorities with ease, wiping out their weak force as it repaired itself. It calculated that perhaps they would seek refuge anywhere any of them would be familiar with. And recovering data from Talon's archives it appeared that Widowmaker as a child, she would frequent a mansion in the middle of a lake by Annecy and it figured to take the chance in going there.
When it arrived in the town, it sought any heat signatures it could find in the lake from the shore line, and nothing appeared within. Then it scanned the area and noticed that up in the sky, a thin heat line could be made out exactly from that of a jet or military plane of sorts. Not far from where it was, the trail started in the woods away from the town. It quickly sped its way to the area.
Looking through the woods, there was a clear sign in the area that a craft had taken off as many pieces of wood, grass, and other foliage were pushed away. However, it managed to find something that caught its investigative interests. A small pool of blood by a tree. It went to examine it and scanned it before looking up any database it could get its hands on that matched the sample. A quick image of Gabriel Reyes from Overwatch, Blackwatch, and Talon appeared and it soon came to realize that he, along with the rest of his team likely escaped on an aircraft.
It spread its jet wings and flew up into the night air, following the heat trail left behind by the plane that they likely had left in.
On one side of the plane sat the Talon rejects, bound to their seats like the criminals that they were perceived as by their Overwatch nemeses sat. Everyone except for Amelie, who held little Victoria in her arms. Across from them, was the Overwatch team that had caught them. Jack at the head of the ship, flying them to their destination, talking into a radio on the ship, making calls.
"Where are we going?" Amelie asked.
"We are heading toward Egypt." Ana answered.
"You taking us to your home?" Ask Gabriel, voice-dripping with sarcasm.
"You are no longer welcome there." Ana frowned.
"Never wanted to go anyway. You're the ones taking us." He fired back, she glared in return. The room became silent for a few moments, the tension impenetrable. All was silent until Victoria began to cry, clearly hungry. Amelie sighed, tired from everything that happened in the last twelve hours. She turned away from the rest of the group and lowered the front of her dress to take out her breast to feed little Victoria. She quietly fed her daughter, until she glanced up and noticed Lena was staring a little more than she cared for. Moreso than the rest of her team.
"Do you mind?" Amelie asked, causing Lena to cough and look away embarrassingly.
"Sorry!" She apologized. "I just can't believe you've got a child. Especially since I've met you and Gerard a few times and you were happy back then." She admitted.
"Well, clearly I do, back then we were, but it was only for show at some point." Amelie frowned, causing everyone in Jack's team to look at her in confusion.
"What are you talking about? Gerard was a great man. Too good for the likes of you now that I think back on it." Ana said.
"You two appeared so happy." Angela pointed out. Amelie sighed and went back to focusing on Victoria.
"I've nothing to prove to you. You all have this perfect image of him, anything negative I have to say about him before I was Widowmaker, none of you would ever believe." Amelie scoffed at their judgmental looks.
"Are you telling me you love him now?" Ana asked as she gestured toward Gabriel with disbelief.
"It is none of your concern. We are your prisoners are we not?" Amelie frowned before taking Victoria off her breast and burping her gently.
"It is our concern when that child should have been Gerard's." Jack said as he walked in, having left the plane on auto-pilot. "And yes, you're our prisoners indefinitely." He ended.
"Connard..." Amelie looked avoided him.
"Well, she's my daughter." Gabriel spoke up. Him and Akande were chained up in their seats rougher than Moira and Sombra. Both of them had weighted chains, cuffs, collars connected to the wall, and feet chained in place. "She's mine and you will never speak about her or her mother like that." He threatened.
"I will speak however I want." Jack said. "But for the sake of keeping the peace, the subject of Gerard and Victoria are off limits as of now." He told his team, who nodded in return. Gabriel tch'd. "What was that?" Jack asked with warning.
"Sake of keeping the peace." Gabriel scoffed. "If that's what you're going to try to do again, then I say put someone else in charge. Happened so well the first time." Gabriel reminded him.
"Oh, what? Someone like you?" Jack said. "Can't even keep his own team from getting captured." He spat.
"I'll give you that one." Gabriel grinned before looking Jack up and down. "Must have learned a thing or two from that surprise attack all those years ago." He provoked and received a punch to his face. He looked back up to Jack who was glaring daggers at him.
"You will not mention that day again, or I will kill you in front of them." Jack threatened as he gestured towards Amelie and Victoria, who were stricken with fear, Gabriel sighed, knowing any provocation would further disturb them both. He had to learn to keep his mouth shut. For their sake.
"Fine." Gabriel complied. Jack frowned before making his way down the row. Coming across Sombra, who was fully clothed in a spare flight suit from the ship.
"Bet you're feeling a whole lot warmer, huh?" He said, Sombra glared death back at Jack. "Look, I just wanted to you know, no hard feelings alright? You're just on the wrong side of this whole debacle. I mean, I hardly even know you." Jack said. "If anyone has a chance out of here, to be honest, out of all of you, it's you and the kid." He admitted. "What do you say? Let bygones be bygones?" He asked, genuine in his approach to Sombra.
Little did he know that Sombra knew a lot more about him than he knew of her. Even back in her Blackwatch days, she never did have the chance to meet Strike Commander Morrison, though he never caught her attention to begin with. She always steered clear of him the same way Genji did, unlike McCree who was close to both him and Gabriel. Sombra thought back to earlier that night and how he treated her in the cold night air, exposing her in such a way that left her a little traumatized. She looked back at her team, who was looking on in curiosity. What would she do? They thought. With dead eyes looking up at Jack's honest ones, she spat down in front of his boots and said.
"Chinga tu madre, cabron." She seethed before settling further into her seat. Jack looked down at her with a disapproving stare. Everyone wondered what he was going to do next. And to their surprise, nothing. He just ignored her action and words and moved on to Moira.
"Dr. Frankestein." Jack teased, as if using an old nickname from back in the day.
"I am many things relating to medical science boyscout." Moira said, before turning to Mercy. "But I'm no Necromancer." She jabbed verbally before turning to Jack again.
"I am no such thing." Said Angela defensively. "I have never-" She was interrupted.
"And what would you call what you did with me." Gabriel said. "To Jack?" She turned to him with a sad look. "Genji?" He finished.
"My capacity to do what's in my heart is far greater than the clutches of death." She replied.
"So much so that you defy it." Gabriel shot back.
"Regardless of what she's capable of." Jack began. "Her abilities and skills have lead us to where we are now." He said. "I have the chance to fix my mistakes in the past, you have your daughter for whatever time you have left on earth." He reminded Gabriel that he would still have to answer for his crimes in the past.
"So what? You want us to get along to defeat this thing?" Akande asked.
"That is the last thing we're going to do." Winston frowned, looking at Akande with disdain. Clearly bad blood between them was still present.
"That's not entirely wrong." Jack said. "For the moment now, if this thing is really what caused such a destruction decades ago, then our petty problems have to be put on hold." He said. Everyone frowned at the idea, glancing at their counterparts across from them.
"So you saying you want to work together again?" Asked Gabriel, examining Jack's expression.
"I can't deny that I want to kill you with every fiber in my being." Said Jack.
"Feeling's mutual." Gabriel replied.
"But we both know that this is more important. A lot more important." Jack finished. Gabriel turned to look at Amelie and Victoria, thinking about a safer future for them. Preventing a second Omnic crisis would certainly ensure that. He turned back to Gabriel.
"Fine. But after we kill this thing, we'll settle this once and for all." Gabriel frowned.
"Deal." Jack said. Suddenly the head of ship began make a ringing sound. "Looks like we arrived at our destination." Said Jack.
"Giza, Egypt." Ana said, with a look a nostalgia about her. "And where our contact will greet us." She said.
Once the ship had landed and the bay doors opened, they were all released from their seats and told to exit the bay, only to be greeted by a unit of fully equipped HSI Guards. One of which had her helmet at her hip and ready to greet them.
"Captain Amari. Thank you for seeing us on such short notice." Said Jack, holding his hand out for her to shake.
"If what you messaged is true," She said as she looked at everyone else, including her mother. "then we don't have time to waste." Fareeha said.