So it's been a while since I've uploaded...well anything, and to be perfectly honest, I just didn't have any motivation to do any of it for a long time. But recently with the announcement of Overwatch 2, and for my love of the game and it's world and lore, I wanted to make my own version of the story. This isn't going to be a complete rewite of the story, nor is it going to be a sort of "Self-Insert OC" if you wanna call it that, it's just my own take and my own vision of the story of Overwatch. We don't know what are going to be the events of Overwatch 2, and we don't know what new future characters or locations are going to be announced, but I'll try to make due with everything that we do have. And please do bare with me on this, it's been a while since I've written anything, but I do hope you all enjoy this story.
I do not own any characters or locations within this story, only original characters. Overwatch is owned by Blizzard Entertainment.
Prologue: Recall
Location: Watchpoint Gibraltar, British Territory of Gibraltar
Date: Present Day
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The darkness of night covered what is known as Watchpoint: Gibraltar, an old Overwatch outpost that stood guard over the Mediterranean. Gibraltar is one of many Overwatch bases located across the globe, each one with a purpose, whether for scientific research, or peacekeeping, or in the case with Gibraltar, providing an orbital launch facility. However, as years have gone and with many more incidents happening throughout the globe, particularly due to the Venice incident, the reveal of the covert ops team Blackwatch, the destruction of the Overwatch headquarters in Switzerland, and many of Overwatch's key members either leaving or killed, the United Nations ordered the disbandment of Overwatch, deeming any activity from the organization outlawed. Now many of Overwatch's former allies and members have left, spreading all throughout the world, living among omnics and humans alike.
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The sound of sparks echo throughout the laboratory as the one denizen works on what looks to be a small, mechanical device. The one denizen residing in the makeshift laboratory is a large primate in futuristic armor, almost looking like an outfit for space travel. The large gorilla hummed to himself, continuing to work on the piece of technology in his hands before a feminine voice can be heard over the intercom. "Shield generator test ready to proceed." The voice said as the ape put his tool down.
Giving it one last look over, he presses the button in the center and the device begins to emit a blue glow, he sets the device down as a beam of light shines upward, forming a dome over the device. However, the dome does not stay on for long, as it begins to static before turning into a red stop sign with the word "FAIL" written on it. The primate gives it a puzzled, before trying to interact with it, this however is halted as a large burst of light blasts the ape back. The mammal comes back to shortly, grunting in annoyance as he pushes the device off of himself and picking himself up to his feet.
"Now now. No need for that, Winston. Your heart rate is through the roof." The feminine voice chastised as the ape jumped onto a tire tied to a rope hanging from the ceiling.
The gorilla, Winston groaned inwardly, rolling his eyes as he swung to a different side of the laboratory. "I told you to stop monitoring my vitals, Athena." Winston stated annoyed before walking over to what looked to be a computer, sitting down on a tire, grabbing a jar of peanut butter and a banana.
"Very well." Athena stated before pausing for a moment. As Winston grabbed his snack Athena spoke once more to Winston. "It has been 43 days, 7 hours and 29 seconds since your last cardial workout. Remember, a healthy body is a..."
"...healthy mind." Winston finished with the jar of peanut butter in his mouth, sounding almost exhausted by Athena's advice, just as a mother would tell her child. "That's why I have this." He states referring to the banana and peanut butter, a snack he's always been fond of since even his childhood. He takes the lid of the jar off, spitting it out before getting comfortable in his chair, using his feet to turn on the monitor to show the global news.
As the monitor opens up a small screen, we see a young woman in a fine suit explaining to the viewers as to what is happening around the globe. "The Second Omnic Crisis continues to devastate Russia. The conflict between omnics and humans has now claimed over fifty thousand lives. So far, the international community has been reluctant to intervene." She states as charts begin to appear, showing the rising casualties around the world. Winston becomes visibly angered by the news before typing out something on his keyboard. This continues before a sign appears in front of Winston that reads "INITIATE OVERWATCH RECALL?" and two buttons with a Y and N appear under it.
Winston goes to press the button before Athena's voice echoes once again. "Every time you see news of this sort, we go through this. I remind you, recalling Overwatch agents to act in duty comes with great risk. The Petras Act clearly states: any Overwatch activity is deemed illegal and punishable by prosecution."
Winston sighs and rolls his eyes. "I know. You're right." He sighs, slumping back into his chair defeated. "That's the way the world is." He states before looking over a photo he has with some of his old allies at what appears to be a graduation for Winston. "But I do miss the old days." "He continues before looking over more photos, stopping at one in particular, a photo of himself as a child, and his caretaker. The memories of his younger self at a moon base rushing through his mind, the face of his old caretaker and father figure, his kind demeanor and the view of the stars and planets merely outside his window.
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Location: Horizon Lunar Colony, Surface of Earth's Moon
Date: 25 years prior to the Present Day
The memory of Winston's childhood rushing by him, seeing the open vaccum of space through the lens that belonged to his caretaker. A door opens behind the small ape, as a scientist appears with one arm behind his back. This startles the young Winston as he cowers back slightly, afraid that he's in trouble. "I think you have something that belongs to me. Hand them over." He gently orders, not showing signs of frustration. Winston hesitates, not wanting to make his caretaker upset. "Oh, it's okay, you're not in trouble." The scientist assures before showing Winston a jar of peanut butter. "Oh, I'll trade ya." He states as Winston happily gives the man his glasses back and takes the jar happily.
Dr. Harold Winston chuckles before looking out into the void of space from the small primate's window, understanding what Winston is seeing. "There's not much to see from here, kiddo. But you know there's more out there, don't you?" He asks before holding his hand out to Winston. "Come on. It's time I showed you something." He says to Winston taking him out the door into the light.
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Location: Watchpoint Gibraltar, British Territory of Gibraltar
Date: Present Day
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Winston is snapped back into reality as an alarm blares through the room. On the monitor he sees in flashing red letters a sign stating "INTRUDER ALERT" along with him hearing the sound of several footsteps echoing throughout the building.
"I'm detecting intruders!" Athena announces as Winston removes his glasses, knowing who has arrived to Watchpoint: Gibraltar.
"Talon." He grunts, knowing he'll have to prepare for a fight. "Athena, kill the lights." Winston orders making Athena plunge the entire laboratory into darkness.
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The small squad of soldiers began to creep their way into the laboratory as the lights we cut. Moving in unison, their scopes turned on as the only light they gather is the red dot of their scopes. Guns pointed in all different directions as the room began to get eerily quiet. Suddenly a noise was heard causing the soldiers to point their weapons towards the location of the sound, to their confusion all they found was a leftover banana peel. One of the soldiers grunts, confused by the appearance of a eaten fruit and they all continued their search of the room.
Suddenly one of the soldiers felt a massive amount of weight fall upon him and a mighty roar echoes throughout the room. Winston had taken advantage of the shadows, striking when his enemies were least suspecting. He grabs one of the soldiers by their leg, and throws him to an upper level of the room, crashing into some metal with a loud thud. He grabs the next soldier by his head, slamming him to the ground as he lets out another mighty roar towards his unwanted guests. One of the soldiers begins to fire his weapon, but Winston is quick enough to grab the man and throw his across the room before the last two soldiers began to open fire on him. Winston quickly dashes towards the two soldiers, rolling in between them to get behind them, and with one blow, he manages to knock both of them out.
A dark wisp moves past Winston, moving upward before forming itself into a humanoid figure. The being was shrouded in mystery, hidden behind a black hooded robe and a skeletal, reaper like mask. He gives an eerie chuckle, seeing Winston. Winston charges at the man, leaping to attack, but is pulled back down, and electrocuted by one of the soldiers tasers. He grunts and roars in pain as the electricity goes through his body, more tasers are shot into him allowing the cloaked man to walk to the master control panel and plant a device onto it.
"Security protocols failing." Athena announced as her screen began to glitch and the monitor read "DATA BREACH" in bold red letters. "Winston! Reaper is extracting the Overwatch agent's database!"
Winston gasped before being shocked once more, he cried in pain as his body continued to be filled with electricity. Suddenly one of the soldiers slipped on the banana peel that was left alone, freeing one of Winston's arms. Winston took notice of this and gave a hearty laugh. "Time to get serious." He thought before letting out a primal roar. His skin turned red, his eyes flared with the yellow electrical shine of rage, he grabbed the lines of the tasers and begin to swing one of the soldiers around, slamming him into his colleagues, before throwing him into a glass window on the upper floor.
"Extraction at 32%." Athena announced. Reaper groaned, annoyed that his men couldn't handle Winston. He cracks his neck and makes his way down to handle the enraged ape. The man drops behind Winston catching him by surprise, before pulling out two shotgun like weapons. He begins to open fire on Winston, pushing the larger challenger back, before shooting Winston in the leg, making him collapse. Winston groans before Reaper shoots upward, the last thing Winston saw was a large metal contraption plummeting down on top of him.
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Location: Horizon Lunar Colony, Surface of Earth's Moon
Date: 25 years prior to the Present Day
Winston and Dr. Harold Winston continued to walk through a large room with an oversized telescope. The doctor looked to the small ape and smiled. "You took these because you wanted to see if there was more out there. Well, see for yourself." The doctor stated as the wall began to part, revealing a window that allowed viewers to look out to the planet. Winston's eyes widened, having never seen Earth before. He cooed before looking back to the doctor. Harold smiled down to his primate friend before giving him a quick pet on the head.
"Always remember. Never accept the world as appears to be. Dare to see it for what it could be." Harold states before continuing to look out to the planet among the stars.
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Location: Watchpoint Gibraltar, British Territory of Gibraltar
Date: Present Day
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Winston's vision was blurry, his head hurt, he thought he felt blood trickling through his fur, he could vaguely hear Athena's voice calling to him. "Winston! Winston!" Athena cried out trying to wake the scientist up. "Winston. He's going to have all agents' locations!" She warned as Winston finally noticed Reaper approaching him, tossing his guns to the side. He pulls out another pair of guns before chuckling darkly.
"I'll be sure to send them your regards, monkey." Reaper stated ready to finish Winston off.
Winston grits his teeth, looking up to Reaper. "I'm not a monkey..." He states placing a large hand on his shield projector he worked on earlier. He slides it over to Reaper's side, distracting him for a moment. The dome appears, but just like previously it fails getting the same error sign and a evil chuckle from Reaper. "I'm a scientist!" He announces to Reaper before shielding himself. Reaper confused as to why he's protecting himself is unaware as the shield projector unleashes a blast of light, knocking the hooded man back. Before Reaper can retaliate, Winston quickly rolls over and collects his tesla cannon, fire a stream of electricity into Reaper, causing the man to cry out in agony and dissipate in a black cloud.
"Extraction 90%." Athena announces, her voice getting slower. Winston rushes to the mainframe to destroy the hacking device, giving it on good squeeze to crush the item. "Hacking 98%." She announces as Winston rushes to the keyboard.
"Hang on, Athena!" He calls out typing away at the keyboard. He watches in terror as Athena's screen glitches and shuts off completely. "Athena?" Winston calls, but no response is given. "Athena!?" He calls again, no response. He looks around, dumbfounded and broken by the loss of his A.I companion, before a light appears on his screen, showing Athena once again.
"Virus quarantined. I'm running diagnosis on core database." Athena announces getting a sigh of relief from Winston. He wipes his brow falling back into his chair. "Restoring systems." She announces putting Winston back at the recall screen, the same two buttons of Y and N.
Winston ponders at the screen, decisions and questions spiraling through his mind on what choice he makes that could alter the world as he knows it. He thinks about what Dr. Winston had told him, the words that his creator told him to remember as long as he lived.
"Always remember. Never accept the world as appears to be. Dare to see it for what it could be."
Winston puts his glasses on, and without another word presses the "Y" button. A view of the globe appears before him, with locations marked and faces attached to said locations all around the world. "Establishing agent connections." Athena calls out. Winston looks to the screen as a several agents appear on the screen, rushing past each one before it stops on one agent, a young woman named Lena Oxton. A message appears, stating that Winston is now in an active call with her.
"Winston? Is that you, love?" Lena's voice appears, not hiding her thick English accent. "Oh, it's been too long!" She cheers getting a smile and a chuckle from Winston. He sighs happily before looking back to the screen.
"Yes." He answers, a smile beaming from his face. "Yes, it has." Unbeknownst to Winston, a black cloud leaves the room, a dark tiding as to what will come in the future.
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And that's it for the prologue. I know it's pretty much just the animated short written down, but I love the video, and it's the video that got me to want to know more about the world of Overwatch. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Please leave a comment if you liked it and let me know if you'd like to see more of this story. I'm not gonna promise this will be a constant scheduled upload, but I'm looking to try and not procrastinate with this story. Also, from now on this story will be posted in the account of VinylScratch250, I can no longer enter my old account due to me forgetting the access codes and email (Stupid me) so just keep that in mind. Again, hope you all enjoyed, love y'all and stay safe out there.
-Kris ;)