Lucio turned back to view the thing chasing him. Holding the nest close in one hand, he began to speak.
"You don't want to do this"
The Bastion roared as it attacked, Lucio dodged nimbly.
"And I know you don't! You're being controlled. And now we need your coding"
The bastions arm swung and Lucio ducked before the blow took his head.
"And you will. Just a little longer"
The bastion paused for a split second, enough for Lucio to believe that it had stopped. He took a cautious step forward. He felt sorry for it, incredibly sorry. It was almost debilitating.
He realised this in just in time to watch the Bastion clip him in the stomach with all the force of a car. Flung back he landed in the snow, gouging out a trough in which he lay. He knew he had been hurt badly, he tasted blood in his mouth, and his chest felt wet and malformed. He couldn't feel the toes of his left foot, but he could feel bone speared through his shin. With his eyes barely open, he knew that the Bastions crushing treads would pound him into the snow, with the birds nest along with it.
The armour burst from the tree and barreled into the storming Bastion, while Lucio lay in the snow.
No, It doesn't know what it's doing.
He sighed with relief as a golden glow lit the snow, and getting onto his knees he spat the blood in his throat into the snow.
"Ow" He looked up to see Reinhardt holding Gungnir. "Thank you"
"It's okay" Reinhardt offered a hand to Lucio, and Lucio groaned in agony as he was lifted onto his feet, his chest felt loose. His left ankle was sheer pain, and when Lucio looked down he felt nausea rise in his throat as he saw his foot hang loose in flesh.
Seeing the Injury, Reinhardt gave another burst.
The sound of crashing machinery and splintering trees turned Lucio's and Reinhardt's heads. The armour had completely overshot, it's hands hung uselessly.
"Zarya's in there" He realised. Talking through gritted teeth "she has no idea what she's doing"
"No" Reinhardt replied. "But until Angela finishes off One, then we're-
"It's stopped fighting back" Lucio cut across Reinhardt.
Reinhardt looked in shock to see that Lucio was right. The Bastion had stopped surging forward like a tank and lashing with its arms and had begun to slow. Retreating in confusion, like a scared dog.
The armour shoved it, pushing it onto its side, and Zarya tried her best to pin it to the snow.
With one last surge of energy, the Bastion threw off the Armour. Then; wheeling around into the trees, it shot off into the forest.
"Hold on!" Reinhardt called before Zarya began to chase it. "If it wheels back around, then we're vulnerable"
Zarya stopped, her eyes were looked into the spot where the Bastion had disappeared. As she watched, the armour stiffened and straightened, becoming increasingly rigid.
"No" came Zarya's voice from the armour. Sprinting as best as she could, she chased after the Bastion.
"What the hell is she doing?" Reinhardt yelled as he and Lucio watched. With a rising fear, Lucio began to sprint into the forest after her.
"What are you-" Reinhardt's voice was ignored, and Lucio tore after Zarya. As he reached the area where Zarya had followed, he saw a small bolt sticking out of the snow.
Oh.
He kept running, and as he went deeper and deeper he saw other pieces torn from the Bastion. As he went deeper, the pieces became larger. A scrap of metal, a piston, and eventually the gunning arm of the Bastion.
"Lucio!" Called Zarya as she stepped out of the snow, armourless. She was panicked, and her eyes were wide in worry. Lucio made to reply, but the words caught in his throat once he saw the Bastion
"Oh, god. It's"
"I know" Zarya replied, she gave a sad look to the Bastion, which was still in its self-inflicted death throes. "It started doing it to itself once it fled" As she said it, the Bastion tried to remove another part of itself. Grabbing the right shoulder guard, it began to push with all its might and tear itself apart. Lucio watched in horror as the parts were forced off its body, and thudded into the snow. Already most of its chest, it's entire right arm and a tread had been removed from its chassis, and already it's arm was shaking.
"Lucio!" Zarya brought him out of his trance and forced him to look her in the face of the armour. "I need to get Reinhardt into the armour before he freezes. I'll go and get Zen" she motioned to the Bastion.
"And what about me?" Lucio asked quietly, he watched the Bastion and moaned in anger as he took in what had happened to it.
"Stay with the Bastion. It didn't want to do any of what it did, and" she took in a deep breath. "And make sure it doesn't destroy its motherboard. We still need the coding"
Lucio nodded and walked to the Bastion, and once he saw it try to remove another piece of itself, touched it on the arm to prevent it.
"We're going to be taking the coding," he told it. "If you care about what we're doing here; and I think you do, then we need you alive" Lucio watched it closely, as it turned to him and began to stare at what he held in his hand.
"Oh" Lucio muttered as he saw what he held. "I forgot about it" He placed the nest back onto the Bastion, a few remaining pile of twigs and sticks.
"I'm sorry it came to pieces"
