Hana and Bastion are now a few hours from arriving to Main Base, but the Omnics got advantage on time. Bastion managed to repair a bit more Hana's MEKA, so it now can move a bit faster. Hana was in her own thoughts remembering last day. Bastion found food for her and his bird. He protected her during night from a huge wave of Omnics that wanted to destroyed her MEKA. That night, Hana couldn't do nothing but to see how Bastion took a lot of damage from them as he fire on his Turret Mode. She was hiding inside a house with Ganymede with her gun just in case the Omnics entered. She never remember a night were she was so scared about her life. Fortunately, Bastion destroyed them all, but not without receiving a lot of damage. His armor plate that he created before he found her is now barely holding together. His optic is broken. But he's still walking on her side and with her. That's something that she admires on this Bastion Unit. 'All this time, on school, it was taught that Bastion Units were dangerous, heartless, Killing machines. But this one is very very different. I don't know why, but I think I'll never get some answers after this. SK would want to destroy him for sure.' Hana knew that. And somehow, she doesn't want that happen. She wants to know more about Bastion and how it is the way he is. They walked for a few minutes until Hana's MEKA managed to get signal.
"Look! I have enough signal to communicate with Main Base!" She said happily.
Bastion chirped and beeped at her, telling her that they would be arriving in almost four hours if they continue at this speed.
"Okay, I'll contact Base now. Hope my friends are safe." She said pressing buttons to get connection to Base.
Saying that everyone on Base is calm would be lying. Everyone is scared and concerned about their situation. No one has news about Hana, and MBo can't get more worried about her. She wants to tell her something important, but she can't do it.
The Commander has been trying to maintain the people calm, but knowing that the Omnics are now nearly three hours from arriving here, is understandable that people won't be calm. Some even started doing disturbs and blaming the government from leaving them there. Their hope was on the professional gamers. And when they saw them returning without the most important member of the team, Hana Song, alias DVa*, was heartbreaking to them, believing that she was killed on battle.
The Base was very busy. People walking from one side to another. Some were running, other were jogging. The Omnics could be seen in the distance, ready to strike once they are on position.
All of Hana's friends were discussion a new plan to defeat them, but with no success. They already used every plan they had before, meaning that if they didn't have a new plan, they would be destroyed against the Omnics.
The Commander was having so much stress, that he got a headache. They need to protect the Base at all cost, but they are overwhelmed. The Omnics surpasses their forces of 1 to 21, meaning that they won't last much against them.
"Sir, we have a transmission from one of our MEKAs." Said a woman sitting on one station.
That caught the attention of all Hana's friends, including MBo and the Commander.
"On screen." He ordered.
Hana's face appeared on the screen, relieving everyone on the room.
"Hana! You are alive!" Screamed MBo. Screams and shouts were thrown to the screen asking if she's alright and where she is.
"Calm down! I'll answer the most important questions first."she said.
"Okay, first of all, how did you survive? We thought you were dead!" Said Kysh.
"I received help from someone. He saved me from being killed after a wave of those little Omnics attacked my MEKA, disabling it. After he saved me, he repaired as much as he could. Now we are near Base."
"That's a relief. But may I ask who's your friend?"
"That'd have to wait for now. But I'll tell you how to destroy the Omnics. The main structure has a hole below it. If you can distract its attacks, one of you can go there avoiding damage and once the person has spotted the hole must fire at it. It would fall after that."
Everyone was speechless at that. That was the plan they needed.
"Now we can attack." Said Kysh.
"Yeah, but first, Hana, how long until you ad your friend arrived?"
They could seen Hana looking outside, a series of some strange sounds came, and then Hana looked again to the screen.
"About an hour and 4 minutes."
Commander looks at the window. The Omnics are nearly on their perimeter. Everyone has concern looks on their faces. Some even have fear on their eyes.
"How many time do you have?" Hana asked after she realized those faces.
Without looking ti the screen, the Commander finally said.
"About 20 minutes."
After the commander said that they don't have much time, Hana and Bastion hurried to get to Base as fas as they could, but due to how slow Bastion is, and the inability to fly, they can't get there early.
"Damnit! How we are going to get to Base fast in les than 20 minutes?!" Shouted Hana.
Bastion seemed to be seeking for something, but she still doesn't know what it is. Suddenly, Bastion made his way to a parked car. The car was surprisingly intact due to the destruction around it. If they could make this car work, then they could arrive early to Base and help with the defense
"I don't think it would work." Said Hana. Bastion seemed to think otherwise, as he used his repairing tool to force the car to start. Bastion wasted no time on making in work, startling Hana. Quickly, Bastion removed the ceiling of the car, and get over it. Hana get over the car as well, and they set off toward Main Base, muttering 'lucky robot.'
The Omnics are now attacking the Base. Wanting nothing but the destruction of this human creation. All forces are attacking the Omnics, but they are being beaten fast. The gamers could only destroy one of the 9 huge Omnics that are attacking Base. For the rest, they had to retreat.
"We can't continue like this!" Said Kysh.
"We need another plan!" Screamed TGF.
"We have to hold, or this place will be destroyed!" Said the Commander.
All forces are being limited fast merciless.
"We need to hold up against them!" Said MBo.
"If only Hana were here…" she mumbled.
Suddenly, a rain of bullets attracted the attention from the 8 left Omnics to a little car with something like a turret over it. Behind it, was nothing more that Hana herself, protecting the turret from the incoming fire.
"Hana! She made it!"
"NOW! ATTACK!"" All the remaining forces run to the Omnics, taking advantage of the distraction, destroying large amounts of Omnics distracted by that turret. Hana and her friends attacked the weak point of the huge Omnics, destroying them fast and effectively.
Once the last of the Omnics were eliminated, they started to regroup and see casualties and informer about their success.
"We are glad they you've returned safely, Hana." Said Kysh. "We couldn't have done it without your help."
"I was so worried about you!" MBo said as she hugs tightly Hana.
Hana giggle a little. "It wasn't entirely me alone. I received help from someone."
"And for someone, you earn a Bastion Unit?!" Asked the Commander angrily.
Everyone gasped hearing that, and Hana's friends look between Hana and the Commander.
"Yes, so what?! He saved me from being killed few days ago, and now it helped us safe the Main Base!"
"Bastions Units are supposed to be destroyed, each one of them. We can't let it free. It must be destroyed." Said the Commander.
Hana got angry at that. Yes, she knew from the first time that the Bastion Unit should be destroyed, but he saved her life. Twice. And even helped saving her home from destruction. It's not be fair for him to be destroyed. It's just not fair.
"Well, if you want to destroy him, then I'm out from you ranks"
The Commander looked at Hana speechless. "You can't do that."
"I can, and I will if you do that. He saved millions of lives. Saved your base. Saved my life. He save South Korea!" She said nearly screaming.
All of her friends were looking at her. They've never seen her like that before. So upset.
Sudden beeps and boops approached the group. Everyone turned to see the Bastion Unit standing in front of them, waving his hand and beeping again.
"Oh! I almost forgot! Your bird is in my MEKA." Hana said, pointing to her MEKA.
"Wha-?"
"Bird?!"
"-!"
"(Gasp)"
"What are you talking about, Hana?" Asked the Commander.
"When Bastion found me, he had a bird with him with her nest. It stayed with him before he helped me and saved me. He asked me to take care of it while he was distracting the enemy." Hana explained to everyone.
Bastion went to the MEKA, took out Ganymede and put her with her nest on his right shoulder. Then, he returned to where Hana was.
The Commander and everyone that has seen the Bastion were afraid that it would attack at any moment. Fortunately, it didn't. Instead, it waited with them as they discuss about what to do with him.
"You do realize that to explain this to the president, would be hard, right Hana?"
"I do, but as soon as I can get my hands on my stream, I'll tell everything that happened on the mission."
"Including the Bastion?!"
"Including Bastion."
The Commander sighted heavily, running a hand on his face ant the other on his hair.
"You may return to your restroom." He said before he heads to the main room.
"What would we do with the Bastion Unit?" Asked MBo.
Hana looks at him, smiling. I might have an idea…"
"IN WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Came the president's voice through the screen.
"A BASTION UNIT IN OUR CONTRY! WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE SOMETHING BOUT IT?! IT COULD KILL MANY PEOPLE ALONE!"
"I know it is my responsibility to do something about that, but Song told me that it saved her twice from the Omnics, and that it helped her and us to defend the Base. It saved millions of lives. Song doesn't want it to be destroyed. She will present it on her next stream, and she treated us to left the military if we do destroy it." Commander explained.
"We can't left it alone in our streets. Do you know what kind of destruction they can do?"
"I know, and Song knows that perfectly."
"If we let it live with us, the terrorist group known as Talon would want to capture it for its benefits. The best way we can't avoid that, is to destroy it."
"I understand sir." The Commander said.
"Sir?" Came one of the Commander helpers.
"We are playing with fire."
Hana thought that it would be great to teach the Bastion how to play some games. She thought it would be easy. That in the end of the day, they could play with it. She thought wrong. The Bastion Unit seemed amazed by everything that they show him. From pressing a button that activates and action, to some attacks from the enemy. They spent most of the day trying to get Bastion learn the rules of the game and some strategies.
"UGH! We cannot teach a machine how to play!" Screamed GBJ.
"He got distracted by anything!" Replied Xx-4Life-xX
"I found that rather cute." Said MBo.
Everyone, except of Hana, stared at her.
"Honestly DVa*. I'm done with this. If you still ant to teach this Omnic how to play, don't include me." Said Kysh.
"Yeah, me neither" said almost all of Hana's friends.
"Fine! If you don't want to be with Bastion, don't come then! I don't need you for this." She said.
After everyone left, Hana as alone with MBo, Bastion and the bird. She just got Bastion to do a move without being distracted by something else.
"I think he's improving." Said MBo.
Hana groaned. "Not now, MB. I really want to know if this Bastion can learn a thing or two about games."
"May be he's not designed for play games, Hana."
"May be you're right. I thought this could be a great idea."
They stayed quiet for some time before MBo broke it.
"Hana, I want to tell you something."
Hana turned to look at her with her arms over her chest. "What is it?"
"I got a scholarship in the UK, Hana. I'm leaving the next week."
So, this was chapter 3. The * means that if disappears the word 'DVa', tell me immediately so I can change it. See ya!