Angela helped Lena down into the main room. She was concerned. Lena was still shaking, cold and was wrapped in multiple layers under the parka at Angela's request. She still shivered wobbled, not up to any form of work relating to the rescue team. Angela had never seen her so weak.

As they came into the room, the tension was palatable. Reinhardt was sat opposite from everyone else, and his head hung down in shame.

"Angela!" Lucio ran to them as they came into the room. "Lena. You're both okay! We were about to check on you"

"Thank Gott" Reinhardt muttered. Angela and Lena came into the room, and Lena nodded to Lucio

"Yeah, we're alright " She looked at Reinhardt. "You okay?"

"He's fine," Zarya told them. "He's just a bit upset" Angela saw the dried blood beneath her ear and moved to check on her. "We used Gungnir, hope you don't mind," Zarya told her. "Good as new"

"Did he do this to you?"

"Who's ''he"?'' Zarya asked.

"An omnic" Lena told her. "The one attacking us"

Zarya growled.

"Yes," She showed her the dry blood on her knuckles. "We were affected too"

"So it happened to all of us, did it?" Angela had been hoping against it. But now it was obvious One was capable of affecting them all.

"Not exactly," Reinhardt said. "I was drunk. Slept through the whole thing" he shuddered. "Had some nightmares though"

Angela frowned.

"What sort of nightmares?"

"Personal ones" Reinhardt replied. "I'm sorry. I was useless. I should have been awake"

"And what would have happened if you had been?" Lucio asked. "I could barely deal with Zarya" With that, he told Angela and Lena what happened at the lodge, and Angela blanched at the thought of how much he was able to influence them. Lena was shaking even harder now, and it wasn't entirely from the cold.

Silence settled, and the air remained charged.

"So" Zarya broke the silence, she talked directly to Angela and Lena. "You met who did this to us?"

"One," Angela said suddenly. Everyone looked at her. Angela explained how she was paralysed by the Omnic, what he said, and how she had felt. She left out certain parts of her experience, the parts that they didn't need to know. And as she talked, she realised she was still affected. By the end, it was clear and in front of her eyes. Halfway through her explanation she froze and stared. The evidence was standing outside of the door.

"Angela?" Zarya asked. Angela peeled her eyes away from the door and turned to her.

"I… I"

"He said his name was, "One," Zenyatta asked severely. "The number?''

Angela didn't reply. She was fixated on the small part of her mind that was still ensnared. Her eyes focused on an invisible point in the room, and her hands clenched in a vice grip. Only at Zenyatta's prodding did she react.

"Sorry" She shook her head.

I should have known it would leave an impact.

"Yes. He told me his name was One"

"As in the first?"

"Ye… Yes," Angela frowned. "How did you know that?"

Zenyatta was stone-still, eventually, he slowly let the body he was inhabiting to crumple down on a chair, his hands were clasped, his voice low, and Angela realised that he was praying.

"Zen?" Zarya asked, clearly concerned.

"One is" Zenyatta shuddered "Possibly the worst thing you could have encountered out there"

"You know him," Zarya said. It was not a question. "If he's so dangerous why don't others know about him?"

"You do. You know him as Indra. The creator of the Shambali order"

"The Omnician spiritualists? Are you serious?" Angela snorted "Will he choke us with prayer beads?"

"Might have been he never believed in what he preached. I was there when he was banished"

"Banished for?"

"Instigating conflict"

"Between who?"

"Omnic and Human" He shook his head. "Following the Indian Subcontinent War, the Omnics got their own state. Nepal. The entire subcontinent was uninhabitable for humans. Entire mountains were destroyed. One-tenth of all intelligent life" Zenyatta's voice had taken on a quiet tone, the others were reminded that while they knew of the Decimation, only Zen had been there to witness it, even though his "eyes" were cameras from the bottom of a satellite. He had not moulded a humanoid form yet. He was brought out of his reverie by a prod from Zarya. "Sorry" he turned to the others. "Yes. He was our first leader. He helped establish the order" He grew silent. "Then we discovered he was luring Tibetans to places of radioactivity. He was trying to get Chinese retaliation, destabilise the relationship-

"And lure other Omnics to war" Zarya finished.

"Precisely"

It dawned on Angela that Zenyatta had kept this from them all. Despite her fingers being slightly numb, she felt the urge to strangle Zen.

"But that doesn't make sense," said Lucio. "We would have heard about that. No way that the media wouldn't pick up on it and no way governments could hide it" Lucio shook his head. "It just doesn't seem plausible"

"No," Angela said in a shaky voice. "It's possible. Remember what he said? He can erase memories. And the… things I saw inside his mind" She put her head in her hands. "All real. All in some way, he was there when terrible things were happening. And no one but us know" She glared at Zen "But you knew about him for years"

The room was quiet, everyone realising the enormity of what had been said. Zenyatta wilted beneath Angela's glare.

"After the reveal" Zarya finally said, "What happened then?" She got closer to Zenyatta. "And why did you hide this from us?"

"Yeah" Lena nodded. "What were you thinking in letting him out into the world?"

"Please, listen." Zen pleaded. "We couldn't allow the information to leak. The relationship between the omnics and the humans was already rocky, if we had alerted people there could have been worse consequences"

"You helped him cover it up" Realisation dawned on Zarya. Suddenly Zenyatta felt the rooms judging him and cornering him.

"What else could we do? He wanted war, he wanted death! He wanted to destabilize all that the order was made for!. If we had released it would've caused even worse to happen down the line" He shook his head. "We did all that we could"

"Blackwatch wanted reprisals" Angela put in. "They wanted conflict, to allow for the strongest to come out on top. He said he was part of Blackwatch. Everything he said while creating the Shambali order was a cover"
"How do you think that made us feel?" Zen hissed. "To know that everything that he had said was just to cover up his true colours" He slumped. "In the end, we replaced him with a new leader, one who truly believed in the order, in peaceful coexistence. Blackwatch couldn't even let us have that, he was killed in London"

Lena shifted awkwardly, and Angela gently placed her hand on a knee.

"Why tell us now?" Zarya kept on.

"Because if I don't, It'll get the Bastion. And if it gets that, we'll all be killed" Zenyatta replied stoically. Zarya stared a little longer, and then turned away, unhappy with the answer.

"So how do we kill One?" Reinhardt asked.

"We don't" Angela replied. Everyone turned to look at her in surprise. Despite what she had said to One, she let her gut take command. "At least, not if we can help it. I wouldn't mind, but... What I saw in its mind could be enough to close down Blackwatch. If we can get evidence of what had done for Blackwatch, we can get it shut down."

Everyone looked at her in disbelief.

"You think he'll testify?" Zarya asked. "You think if we just drag him in front of the Hague we could get him to tell everyone what he had done"

"Yes," Zen suddenly said. "I know a way we can do that. But it is far from pleasant"

"No change in pace then" Angela replied. She looked to Zarya. "If this works, we have the best ever shot we ever had to end Blackwatch. If it fails"

"We go back to plan A" Zarya nodded.

"I… I don't know Angela" Lena muttered softly. "This is very dodgy"

"Can we even accuse him?" Asked Reinhardt.

"Yes" Replied both Angela and Zenyatta in unison. Angela reluctantly abdicated to Zenyatta.

"Since the introduction of mental play amongst Omnics, the Geneva convention was amended so as to introduce the possibility of thought warfare. Other forms of international law followed suit"

Angela snickered. "In all honesty they were made just to target Omnics, but they are certainly useful now. Mental play" She focused on the point in the room that held her ensnared.

She knew her mind was being prayed upon. It was right in front of her. She had no idea how One had attacked, how he will react, or if he would be able to attack once again.

"Zen, will he be attacking us again?" Zarya asked.

"Yes. But it will not be as potent. We're aware now, it's harder to get inside"

"I see" Zarya nodded. "I'm setting up a watch. Instead of the Bastion timetables, they will now be the time one of us will be looking for One"

Angela had almost forgotten about the bastion. With a glance to Zen, she realised why the Bastion had reacted so badly to Zen.

"It's afraid. One is trying to find the Bastion" Angela said

"That... makes sense" Zarya muttered.

"One wanted to turn me over to Blackwatch, if it does the same for the Bastion"

"Then it will attack us," Lena said slowly

"And we die in our mission" Zarya finished. "Apart for you, most likely Angela"

Angela was silent, but she began to wonder. And finally, decided to talk very seriously with Lena. But first

"I'll be continuing my shift then" Angela muttered.

"Like hell, you just suffered hypothermia. And your shift is over. You will be resting"

"You think I can rest now?"

"Yes," Zarya said. "You and Lena are out for the day"

"Bullshit"

"It's for the best, Angela" Lucio said gently. "You were just-

"Yeah, yeah" Angela sighed, beaten 2 to one. "Fine"

"I want you both to get some more rest," Zarya said. Angela made to speak, but Zarya cut across her. "As in right now" She continued. "Reinhardt, I want you in the armour, doing a" Zarya thought about that. "On second thought, I want you in a coat and checking the perimeter of the house. You will not be wearing the armour until we are sure One cannot attack us"

"I'll go with him," Lucio said. Might catch a glimpse of the Bastion"

"Let's hope not" Zarya replied. "Zen. You will teach me what you intend to teach Angela. If something goes wrong I still intend to bring in the One, or kill him"

Zarya watched as everyone left for their individual assignments. Angela left at a brisk pace that made her outstrip the others, and Reinhardt attempted to catch up.

"Angela" He began. "I plan to modify the armour. If it reads certain brain waves I will have it freeze on me, that way he can't use it"

Angela nodded. "I'll help you out" She began to walk to the garage. Reinhardt caught her out.

"Whoa, I meant after you've fully recovered"

"I'll just set up the equipment" Angela replied. "It won't take a moment"

Lena stumbled past them, and Angela held out a hand for her to grab.

"I'll be with you soon, I'm recovering quicker but you seem to be taking longer," Angela told her. Lena nodded her thanks. "Go and rest, mein lieb-... mein Schnüggerli"

She nodded again.

Angela crossed into the garage and was glad to find it warm. Her skin still felt cold and clammy from the previous experience, and she still felt weak. Putting out the tools would be easy however, but there was something else that bothered her a great deal.

"Hello Liebling"

"Hello Angela" Einar replied.