The man who had battered down the doors to the lab wasn't immediately recognizable.

A bulky man, carrying a massive gun stood across from me, his messy black and white hair framing a massive savage gin.

"Well well, look what we have here. Staying late brainiac?" he taunted.

I grabbed the remains of the portal projector and stashed them in my pocket. "Yeah, fuck this."

And I charged.

The man looked at me in surprise as I vaulted over him and into the corridor, bouncing off the walls, I barely managed to get around a corner before the bullets started flying and slammed into the wall behind me.

"I've got a big guy with a gun behind me," I called out, "Athena! What's the best route out of here."

"A fire escape is coming up on your right. You should be able to get to the courtyards from there." She responded.

I took a look behind me and saw the barrel of a gun peek out around the corner.

I ducked into the stairwell and immediately began leaping down the flight of stairs, leaping over the railing as soon as I had clearance.

I was two floors down when I heard him open the door. I barely caught sight of him before leaping down another floor to avoid another hail of bullets.

The building rocked and a loud crash sounded in the distance.

I smashed through the door with my shoulder and rolled out onto the grassy courtyard.

Looking back at the stairwell, I saw the man drop down and began to sprint for cover.

Muttering under my breath, I pushed my body as hard as I could to get behind some cover.

As I touched down, I cut my finger on one of the pieces or the portal projector in my pocket. I felt the spell settle around me, cloaking me in a basic illusion of 'I'm not fucking over here'.

The earth shook, and part of the building fell to the ground.

"Hiding are you?" He roared, "Let's see you hide from this!"

His gun roared to life and he began sweeping the yard with bullets. Tucked behind the rock, I was safe for now, but in between sweeps I could see him moving.

Scrambling for a plan, I reached into my pocket and grabbed the pieces of the projector.

An idea struck me.

Carefully keeping the rock in between me and the man, I brought the spellbooks that Raven had given me to the front of my mind. The basic theory books that I needed to go over to even understand the summoning and travel spells and rituals covered the use of reagents.

Searching through the pieces, I pulled out a component and blet all over it messily. Chanting as I let the spell fail.

"Hah! There you are!" he yelled.

And then, as he brought his gun to bear, I spun around and threw out my hand, my other covering my eyes

The component exploded, cutting giant gashes into my palm and arm. I felt shrapnel score my face.

It didn't hold a candle in comparison to what had happened on the other guy.

Still dripping blood, I lowered my arm to see the courtyard ripped up, and the man flung bodily into the building behind him.

His gun was ended a dented, bent mess as he slowly picked himself up.

I stared at my hand and then turned to sprint into the main building.

"Athena, where's the nearest armoury and what's going on with Winston!" I yelled.

The AI's calm voice echoed from the speakers, "The nearest armoury is one floor above you. The stairs are on the right. Winston and Spider-woman are currently facing hostile forces in the eastern hangar."

Sprinting up the stairs, I followed her direction and immediately detonated three of the biotic grenades.

With my wounds taken care of, I pulled a rifle from the racks.

"Directions to Winston, now!" I yelled.

I moved as quickly as I could, my feet pounding under me.

As I cut across the courtyard, I turned to my attacker as he picked himself up and put a few rounds into him.

Sprinting, I continued to the other side of the courtyard, and into a very damaged looking building.

The sight that greeted me was a mess.

Several black-helmeted talon troops were scattered across the ground, bones broken and battered.

And there, in the centre of the hanger was him. Doomfist.

The monstrously muscled man was meeting Winston blow for blow, the enraged ape alight with the glow of his primal rage.

I spotted Gwen at the side of the room and ran over to her, chucking a biotic grenade in front of me, "Spider-woman, you okay?"

"Jon?" She groaned as she picked herself up, "Yeah, I'm okay. That guy is strong."

I nod, "He's the leader of Talon. I have no idea what he's doing here."

The two smashed into each other again, the room shaking from the meeting of their fists.

Gwen hopped up onto her feet, "There was another one. Purple clothes."

I winced, "That's Sombra. Athena, can you detect her?"

"No other individuals found." Called out the AI.

I cursed, "Gwen, do you think you can use your spider-sense to find her? She will probably be in Winston's lab. Athena, be on the lookout for any intrusion!"

"It's a bit fuzzy out here," Gwen focused, "but - Watch out!"

She pushed me out of the way of a flying ape. As I pulled myself to my feet, I turned to her, "Okay, new plan. Get to Winston's lab. We can't let them get the pins."

Seeing an opening, I tossed a biotic grenade at Winston as Gwen grabbed me and shot out a web, sending the two of us careening through the hallways.

Hopefully, Winston would be able to drive off Doomfist soon. It was dangerous as it was with Sombra in the base. Thankfully, all the files related to interplanar technologies were safely off-world.

The only thing that we ran the risk of dealing with was the additional pins that Winston was supposed to be making.

Well, that and any other designs that Winston had kicking around in the mainframe.

We crashed into the lab, only to be met with silence.

I looked around.

There was nothing there.

I moved towards the panel when I was suddenly knocked over by Gwen. A spray of bullets flew over our heads. I grabbed Gwen and vaulted over a desk.

"Tch." Sombra scoffed as she dropped out of her invisibility. Raising her pistol she aimed at us again, "Where are the files?"

For a moment, I was just confused. Winston stored his files on the mainframe.

And then, I laughed, "That clever Gorilla!"

Sobra shot another spay of ammo at us, "I'm getting bored of this. Where are the files."

Gwen smiled, "Not here." Leaping up, she moved faster than Sombra could bring her weapons to bear, the hacker only barely able to dodge the incoming first strike and disappear into invisibility through sheer experience.

I stayed watchful, my ears cocked to hear the slightest sounds.

It wasn't enough. Sombra still managed to decloak in front fo me with the pistol trained on my face.

"Tell me where the data is stored or he gets it!" She called out to Gwen.

Too bad it wasn't Gwen she should have been paying attention to.

As soon as she reacted to the sound of Gwen moving among the pipes, I moved, my hand moving to bat the pistol out of the way and my other leg sweeping out from under me to knock her down. In a flash, I had her pinned.

"Damn it!" she yelled… and disappeared right out from under me.

I blinked and then cursed, "Teleporter. Fuck, I forgot."

Athena chimed out, "Intruders have left the premises."

As we headed back to meet up with Winston, I found him binding up the mercs that Doomfist and Sombra had left behind. As he saw us, he smiled, "Heh! Not bad!"

I looked at him in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"You've got good instincts," Winston commented, "And thanks for the heal. Doomfist nearly had me there."

I nodded and collapsed into the seat. Looking around I laughed, "This is going to take a while to fix, isn't it."

"Yeah, I can't use hard-light for this sort of place," Winston noted.

Gwen turned to Winston, "Do you know what they were after?"

"Widowmaker's location, presumably." Winston admitted, "Given the Talon attacks it was decided that I was the best person to hold Widowmaker until her trial. She's being kept as a hidden location while researchers try to see if anything can be done about what Talon did to her."

I nodded, "Let's get everyone here sorted then."