One of the hardest things to do after not writing for so long was to get back into this. I want to let everyone know the saving grace to get me rolling again was my promise to get back mid-June and every review for the story. It also helped greatly to see the list of names of everyone who's following and favorited the story. Thank you everyone! Now, the story continues on.

Telling the story took a lot longer than Brigitte imagined it would.

From the very beginning, DVa had looked to Reinhardt. "Do you remember me, Reinhardt?"

He frowned. "I know of you from the media. But outside of that…" He scratched his head. "Ah, this old dog's memory wasn't how it used to be."

DVa nodded slightly. "I remember you from one of the omnic monstrosity attacks. You helped escort me from Pohang shortly after it was destroyed. I believe you had volunteered for the government after-effect program?"

Now Reinhardt looked seriously in thought. He rubbed his temples and scratched his head. "I…remember bits and pieces of what you're describing. There were several other people I rescued from the aftermath, so I can't say I remember you in particular. Forgive me."

"No it's ok." DVa slightly clenched her blankets. "Both my parents have been MIA since then. I didn't know if you'd remember also rescuing them by chance. Please don't worry about it; it was a stretch to ask. I've been meaning to say this, though, ever since." She bowed, bending her back as far as she could while in the bed. "Thank you."

He gave a heart-felt smile. "You're welcome. To see someone alive and well from back then is its own reward."

Brigitte decided to follow everyone else's lead in the room, which was to remain quiet. She wanted to say something to brighten her up about her parents, but she had nothing.

The next questions and comments were about the initial attack. Winston scratched his head. "The bastions came from the sky, you say?"

"Yeah, like the aliens invasion scene from Ben 10: Omniverse Renovation."

Everyone looked at DVa quizzically except Brigitte, who gave a relieved smile. She couldn't recall DVa making a gaming reference since their travels to Bunker 1, when their situation wasn't too stressed. Although nobody understood that reference, it was nice to know she was relaxed.

"I…I see," Winston said like he didn't understand. "Like an airdrop?"

"Like care packages," DVa agreed. "Once they hit the ground, they were up and running."

"Disturbing." Winston hmmed. "The electro-magnetic barrier should've destroyed their programming and electric functions upon entering the airspace. Had they destroyed it beforehand?"

"No," Brigitte answered. "We actually destroyed that later so Commander Jeong could contact the air fleet during the retake."

"It was most definitely Sombra," Zynx said.

Everyone looked towards him as she continued. "I didn't know a lot of Sombra's plans as she was somewhat private with them. She also has a habit of improvising many situations since the plans she's in don't often work out. But I do recall knowing she had been stationed at mountain range weeks before the attack. There's no doubt in my mind she somehow disabled them before the launch began."

A silence permeated the air. "So, she's had a hand in things for that long." Mercy shook her head. "It baffles me one woman is capable of espionage on that level. I know Captain Amari was good during her time as "Shrike" in Egypt, but…"

That worried Brigitte. She had never met the co-founder of Overwatch, but she heard a lot about her from Reinhardt. Apparently, she's been dropping anonymous tips to keep a resistance group in Egypt out of the eyes of the government like nobody's business. If Sombra was compared well beyond her…she stopped thinking about it. She didn't need that stress at the moment.

"Do you know anything about the payload?" Genji asked.

Zynx nodded. "A bit more than most, in fact. It wouldn't be inaccurate to compare it to a carrier ship. The AI controlling it is capable of controlling the monstrosity if it gets its hands on it, as some of you know. To give you a rough idea of its performance level, its floating point operations per second is above three hundred. I also heard at its peak performance levels that it's above six hundred and that it can go even higher."

Dva and Winston's eyes were as wide as their mouths.

"How bad is that, DVa?" Brigitte asked.

It took her a moment to gather her words. "The strongest supercomputers are the ones at Ecopoints like Antartica, San Andreas, and Mount Everest. Each one can calculate natural factors like temperature, moisture, wind speeds, earth tremors, and other things of a wide area a few hundred times per second. That's at around one-eighty operations per second. So for six-hundred…"

"It can most definitely control the entirety of the monstrosity with ease," Winston finished. "I was hoping their technology might prove to be inefficient, but…"

Another silence went around, but Zynx quickly continued. "It's also armed with numerous anti-aircraft weaponry and drilling devices. Many of the omnics that fell from the sky from the initial attack were launched from its deploy cannons. This is all in the words of Sombra. She's done a tour of the place, apparently."

Reinhardt nodded. "A beast among beast. I sure hope the ORTF knows all this as they make their plans."

"Tracer, go send a quick message to General Vorn about this," Mercy ordered. "Just to be safe."

"Aye aye, captain!" Tracer blinked out of sight towards the ship's main panels.

Brigitte and DVa continued after Tracer returned. At the mention of DVa's rebuilt MEKA, Mercy asked, "How did that come to be?"

"We don't know," Brigtte said. "I was actually hoping one of you guys could tell us."

Everyone looked to Winston, deep in thought. "Vishkar technology is my only thought. Outside of that, I don't know."

Brigitte and DVa looked to Zynx, but he shook his head. Not me.

When Brigitte got to the OR14, Reinhardt grinned mischievously as he listened in. Brigitte couldn't help but get into it and lavish details, even if some were exaggerated. At the end, Reinhardt laughed. "Well done! My first encounter with them might've been more heroic than that, but well done nonetheless. You are quite the crusader."

"Jeez, thank you for your kind praise," Brigitte murmured, but she felt a warm feeling inside her chest from the compliment.

The rest of the story was more or less told without interruption: journeying to Bunker 1, discovering the omnic army and the payload, warning Commander Jeong, discovering the underground arsenal, witnessing the retake defeat, discovering the omnic monstrosity, trudging to Bunker 8, meeting Zynx, meeting Sombra, and finally how they survived the omnic squids to be rescued in time.

Brigitte had left Sombra's retirement comment. She'd get to that eventually.

At its end, Brigitte and DVa sighed. Reinhardt laughed with glee as he glanced at Sombra. "Brings back memories from our days, doesn't it, Angela?"

Mercy shrugged. "A few. All in all, as I've said before, I'm glad you're both ok. Goodness knows you both can take it easy for a while."

A loud beeping like a stopwatch resonated from the front of the ship. "Huh, we must be nearing the base. That was much sooner than expected. Tracer, would you…?"

"No problem, love!" She blinked back to the front of the ship.

"Now then," Genji said as he faced Zynx. "It's time for your story."