A week passed since Halloween, and the crew of Overwatch received a transmission from Oasis that it was being held by Talon. The transmission didn't say more than that, but just by having the word Talon was enough to go to investigate. So Hana, Bastion, Ana, Roadhog, Junkrat and Brigitte are traveling to Oasis.
"Bastion, are you ok not having neither of the shield generator nor the mine?" Asked Brigitte.
Bastion's response was a nod, not even wanting to log into conversation. Brigitte sighed and Hana tried to comfort her.
"Don't worry. I am sure that Bastion can handle everything that someone throws at him."
"It's just that I've grown to care about Bastion since he's with you." She said.
"Almost everyone in Overwatch grew to care about him, dear. Not only the two of you. I have seen him save my Fareeha from being killed by taking damage during a mission." Said Ana.
"We junkers don' care 'bout no one bu' ourselves. But since Bastion 'ere saves me and Hog too, we now respect 'im a little." Said Junkrat. Roadhog grunted in response.
"Bastion care about all of us. Not only for Ganymede or me. He demonstrated that during Talon's attack to Overwatch. But he's got his reasons why he decided not to have the Shield and Mine, since the two of them use a lot power from his core. I am sure that he'd do fine as he did back in SK when we met." Hana said.
After that, everyone went silent, for there is nothing else to discuss. After a few more minutes, they arrived at Oasis's Gardens. They quickly get out from their shuttle and made their way to the center of the place, not encountering any Talon agent.
"Strange. The report said that Talon was here." Said Hana.
"Maybe they 'cided t'move. I don' know." Said Junkrat.
Bastion scanned the area with his improved visor that Winston installed, not finding anything as well.
"Wait, I am receiving a signal inside the university. Just in the middle of it." Said Hana.
"Could be Talon or a prisoner." Said Brigitte.
"Beep bop tweet deer booop."
"It's true. My scans shows that the signal comes from an unknown omnic." Said Hana.
"We shoul' be cautious." Said Roadhog.
"I agree. We should be careful in the University." Siena Ana as everyone started making their way toward the unknown signal. When they arrived at the center of the place, Bastion was the first to enter. Suddenly, after he entered the room, a wall appeared behind him, on the sides, bellow the center, and in front of him, cutting any way of escaping.
"Bastion!" Cried Hana as she tried to use her thrusters to reach him. But her MEKA didn't make any move.
"What the..." she said.
"Sorry for that, Miss Song, but I cannot allow you to interfere with this... experiment." Said a voice that Ana knew all too well.
"Moira..." she said.
"It seems that you brought Captain Amari here. Well, that is no concern for me right now. What it matters is this fight we are about to have." Moira said.
"Fight? What fight?" Asked Brigitte.
"You see, since Talon's failure to destroy Overwatch HQ we have learned about what make us fail. That bastion Unit." Moira said that with a little bit of fierce. "Since that day, Talon searched fo ways to understand how is it possible that a Bastion Unit from the Omnic Crisis is still functioning. We were quite impressed knowing that it helps most of it exoskeleton intact. But we were disappointed that most of its software wasn't. But it was not a complete loss for us. We make progress while you rested comfortable in your base. And the results are fascinating, I must say. But to call this project a full success, we need to test it. And what better test subject than the original?" Moira said as a screen appeared in front of the five that were left behind the door. A dark figure appeared form the basement of the University. Everyone's eyes went wide as they recognized the figure. A Bastion Unit, but this one seemed to be improved somehow.
"Thanks to Sombra, who gathered the information we needed during Talon's attack to Volskaya, we managed to create our own Unit. We call it Stealth. But enough of talking. Let the battle begin!"
Stealth fired at Bastion, and he made his way to get to cover to avoid the fire of it. Luckily, Torbjörn and Winston upgraded Bastion's armor, giving him a passive ability to receive 25% less damage. Stealth turned into Sentry and followed Bastion. Bastion was already on Turret form when Stealth entered the small room on the side of the hole of the University. Once in sight, Bastion fires at Stealth, damaging part of his armor. Stealth escaped from taking any more damage, but repaired the damage quickly. Bastion pursued his enemy to the center of the room. When he entered, Stealth opened fire as well, moving erratically. Bastion did so too. It seemed that neither of them where getting anywhere. Sometimes they may change to Turret form, but retreat fast to avoid any damage. They continued to do that as everyone watched the fight. Hana tried many times to make her MEKA function again, but to not avail. Junkrat eve used his bombs on the wall, but they aren't so strong.
"Calm down, little one." Said Ana.
"How could you ask me that when Bastion is there alone?! We mast help him!" Hana cried.
"I know you want to help him. I want it too. But we cannot do nothing now but to wait and watch."
Hana looked at Ana, then to the screen. Finally, Hana sighed. Reluctantly, she calmed down and watched Bastion's fight with that clone of him.
In the mean time, Moira and Sombra, in Moira's office, were watching the fight through the cameras that Sombra put. As the fight went on, Moira drank some wine from the University.
"It is good to finally testing this prototype in the field. And even better against the original." Moira said.
"It took some time, but I managed to put everything Talon wanted inside the thing. I cannot believe that has surpassed all of my expectations." Said Sombra.
Moira looked at Sombra. "You did a good job. Should this prototype fall would mean that there is a lot more to learn about the Bastion Unit. That is the way of a scientist."
"Yeah yeah. But I like doing things that would work better than the original. You'll see Moira. Stealth will win." Sombra said.
"Let's hope so."
Bastion wasn't having a good time. He already wasted almost all of his ammo, but Stealth was still fighting. If he doesn't do something now, he'd be defeated soon. He repaired any small damage and entered Tank Mode. When he looked to Stealth to fire, he was surprised to find it in the same configuration. Both of them fired, but Bastion took more damage than Stealth. Bastion run toward the basement to avoid any more critical damage. His systems were telling him that he needed repairs now or they would shut down. Bastion then remembered something playing with Hana Monster Hunter World...
Hana was against a huge monster, a Rathian. And she was with low health. The new feature that the game has, is that you can actually hide in bushes and smoke. So Hana hid her character in one of them and waited for the Rathian to get distracted. Once Hana healed her character and the Rathian was looking to another direction, Hana struck her down, finishing the mission.
With that memory, Bastion's made a plan. One that could assure his victory in this fight... the only thing he need is a place to hide.
Oasis's Garden, before the message...
Moira and Sombra were looking to the now built Bastion Unit. But this was a little different form the original. First thing, it has a better metal alloy, making its armor harder and tougher, receiving less damage. Its systems are more modern and is virus proof since Sombra put a software of her own as the AI.
"I am surprised to see it complete, Sombra. Yet I am curious how it will behave once it is on." Said Moira checking the design and work of Sombra.
"I assure you, it will do the job just fine. This thing will destroy that Bastion Unit."
"Hmm... yet, it is made of expensive materials and it takes long to produce." Commented Moira.
"That is because I had to create it from almost zero. If it hadn't been for the plans, I would have delayed more time."
"Indeed. Well, I want to see it in action as soon as possible." Moira looked to Sombra. "Send the message to Overwatch. Make sure to place it in the middle of the establishment. Then go to my office."
"Understood."
Present time...
After Bastion managed to hide in the shadows, he started executing his plan. He need to repair his armor. Unfortunately, his repairing tool was damaged during the explosions and can only repair so much now. So instead of repairing himself, he decided to be left damaged. That way, the other Omnic will come to him with its guard down, enough for him to fire to the head with all of his bullets in Turret mode. First thing, is calling the attention of the Omnic and avoid it to enter to any of the other forms. So he changed to Turret form with some difficulty. After that, he fired a round of bullets to the wall, calling the attention of Stealth. After that, he turned off his blue lights, leaving his visual and thermal sensors active.
A few seconds later, Stealth appeared, ignoring the shadows. As he walks he passes Bastion. Bastion moved slowly his Turret, and fired...
Only to be met by a shield blocking all of his bullets. Bastion's immediate resonse was changing to Sentry Mode, but it was too late. Stealth found him and punched him, disarming him completely.