After leaving Dva in slack jawed amazement, Amélie continued on into the mess hall where Tracer and Winston were.
"Tracer, you've hardly eaten your food. It's going to get cold," said Winston, concerningly.
"I know, I know. I'm just not looking forward to becoming a moving target for two expert snipers," Tracer said sulking in her seat. Amélie blushed at the comparison Tracer just made.
Winston chuckled, "It'll be okay, Tracer. If things ever get too rough, I'll jump in to save you."
"Thanks, big guy," Tracer said nervously as she noticed Amélie standing behind her, "Oy, Amélie, how are ya feelin, love?"
"Well, I can feel, so that means things are pretty great again," Amélie said.
Dva suddenly appears from behind Amélie. "If you ask me, I don't think this test is necessary," Dva said between bites of Doritos.
"And why is that?" Winston inquired.
"For anyone who doesn't know, a lot of the reason why I was able to become a pilot for MEKA was from my expert aim in video games. In fact, the same can be said about the entirety of MEKA," Dva paused to take a swig of Mtn Dew, "And despite all of that, what I just saw from Amélie on a game she's never played before while never even playing video games before was a level of hand-eye coordination that I can't even achieve."
Winston finally chimed in. "While I respect your achievements and do not mean to belittle it whatsoever, we cannot use Amélie playing a video game as a good enough reason to shove her out into a battlefield."
Before Dva could respond, Sombra suddenly appeared out of stealth. "Aww, isn't that sweet?" Sombra said mockingly as Dva glared, "In all seriousness though, short stuff there might be on to something, the treatment to brainwash Amélie didn't just remove her ability to feel but heightened all her senses to near superhuman levels," Sombra said, rolling her eyes.
"I went from not hitting anything to hitting everything that moved the second I got angry…it seemed to just go into auto-pilot..." Amélie said, confused.
"Seems whatever they did to give you that power is still locked away inside you, Spi-," Tracer shut up after a glare from Winston, "Sorry. Force of habit."
"I think if we can harness that ability then you might just be ready for the battlefield, Lacroix" Winston said confidently.
"But how?" asked Dva.
"Practice," Ana said, coming into the hall with Zarya not too far behind.
"Practice does make perfect," Zarya bellowed, startling Ana.
"For someone as big as you, Zarya, you sure are light on your feet," said Ana, clearing her throat, "Thanks to Sombra, here, we were able to gather intel and determine that Talon is not ready for another strike…at least not anytime soon. We need to use this precious time to do anything we can to bring these abilities out of you."
Echo suddenly flew into the mess hall. "Captain Amari, it is now 2pm, and the exhibition arena has been completely prepped and ready to go," said Echo gleefully.
"Thank you, Echo," Ana said with a smile "Now then Amélie. Tracer. Follow me."
As the trio arrived at the arena, Ana stopped and tossed Tracer a travel bag. "Here, Lena, you'll need to wear this so we can ensure no injuries will occur."
Tracer opened the bag to see a full body suit, and her eyes lit up.
"You shouldn't feel a thing in that my dear," Ana said, reassuringly.
"Thanks Cap, now let's get out there and put on a show, yeah?" Tracer said, going out the door.
Dva, Sombra, Winston, Zarya, and Echo sat in the stands as Ana and Amélie took their places on opposite sides of the field. Tracer waited behind the gate for her queue, as Ana explained the rules.
"The rules are simple, dear. You have red paint in your gun, and I have blue paint in mine. Whoever's color Tracer is more covered in wins. You don't have to beat me. Just prove you can keep up," Ana said with a smirk.
Suddenly, a countdown started from five, and Amélie and Ana scoped in. As the countdown hit zero, Tracer darted out and began blinking around in and out of cover at high speeds. Ana was able to land 3 consecutive shots on Tracer while Amélie was struggling to even see Tracer.
"I can't even see her..." Amélie said, emotionally, realizing her one chance for revenge was slowly slipping away from her.
Ana hit 3 more shots on Tracer effortlessly and noticed what was happening with Amélie. "Come on, is that the best you can do? Clearly, I was wrong to even give you this opportunity, and clearly Gerard was a fool to even bother with someone like you," said Ana sternly.
Upon hearing that last line from Ana, Amélie snapped, "You know NOTHING about him!" Amélie roared as she aimed her rifle directly towards Ana, firing and hitting her square between the eyes, knocking Ana back.
Widowmaker had come back if even for a second. Realizing what she had done, Amélie threw down the rifle and collapsed into a mess of tears, as the others looked on in horror with the exception of Sombra who only smirked.
The silence was broken by Ana laughing and giving a thumbs up before sitting up. "You passed Amélie, I'm sorry for what I said but I had to test Dva and Sombra's theory for myself" Ana said, rubbing her head, "Now that we have confirmed this to be true, we can better focus on truly bringing that out." Ana picked herself up. "Besides I would be a fool to not allow someone who has bested me twice to fight alongside us."
Everyone in the stands let out a collective sigh except for Sombra who only chuckled and said "I knew it all along" as Tracer went over to console Amélie who was feeling a mixture of sadness and joy.
Tracer hugged Amélie. "You did it, love! Albeit very unorthodox, Cap was just trying to see if you could handle yourself out there truly."
"I know, cherie." Amélie said, reassuringly before getting up and yelling over to Ana.
"I guess you can say we're even now, right?" Amélie asked nervously. Ana only smiled back before going off to Mercy's office for treatment.
Amélie and Tracer followed Ana to Mercy's office and watched as the prodigy doctor healed Ana's wound. "There you go, Captain, all bett-"
Ana cut off Mercy to say, "Don't think I forgot about your little fling with my daughter Dr. Ziegler," before getting up and heading back to her office.
Mercy stood frozen in fear before Tracer asked, "Uh, doc? What did she mean by that?"
"Uh nothing, nothing at all, dear, just some friendly banter," Mercy said, hurrying out of the office with her cheek's beet red. Tracer looked on confused before finally putting the pieces together and chased after the good doctor to no doubt torment her over it.
Amélie took a deep breath before Sombra appeared in the office next to her. startling Amélie. "Quite the scoop huh? Overwatch's top doctor getting it on with the captain's daughter?" Sombra said chuckling
"Uh yeah, I suppose it is. Look, Sombra, I have to ask even though I know you're not going to tell me the true reason, but why did you decide to come and help Overwatch, and for that matter why are you showing any interest in helping me?" Amélie asked Sombra.
"Aww you know I can't tell you my secrets, but I will let you in on this. I never wanted to be a part of Talon. I simply used them to get what I needed for a bigger goal, a goal that is now being jeopardized by Reaper and the rest of the crew that's grown a bit since you were last there." Sombra said, surprisingly candidly.
Amélie smirked and said, "I always knew you weren't like the rest of them. Despite looking like a corpse, I was very much alive inside that vessel and I'm happy to see you're with us now."
Amélie extended her hand. Sombra simply booped Amélie's nose and vanished.
Later that night, Dva was playing console Paladins on one of Winston's giant monitors when Sombra appeared. "Hey cool game, can I play?" Sombra asked with a smirk.
Dva glared at Sombra with a pout before handing her the controller and watched in horror as Sombra uploaded hacks into the game and began 360 spinning and no scope headshotting the entire server until Dva's account was banned.
Dva looked on dumbfounded at what had just happened and suddenly busted out into tears, running off into the bathroom. Dva had grinded long and hard for her reputation among the gaming and Korean military circles, and in mere seconds, Sombra had squashed it all like a bug.
Sombra's expression started as her usual smug self but slowly dropped to a look of guilt and unhappiness. This sudden wave of guilt caused her to hack into the game's system and wipe the ban away along with leaving a note saying the account was hacked and that Hana had nothing to do with it. Sombra slid a note under the bathroom door to Dva explaining what she did before leaving, the note read:
Stop your crying, it was just a joke. With that being said (and I feel really nauseous even saying this), I reverted the ban and cleared your name so knock it off or else.
Love, Sombra ;)