18th March, 2070
Watchpoint-Gibralter
In the morning, Lance woke up to find Angela still asleep holding his hand. Seeing her his eyes started to shed tears which he had to wipe away to not wake her mother. "I made it, yes we still have a chance. But I should wait for her to rest. Mother. I will not leave you again."
He laid her on his bed and walked outside to the balcony still holding his arm. It didn't hurt as much as before but it still gave a bad sting if he lifted it too much.
1 hour later
When Mercy woke up she seemed surprised to see her changed position from last night but was more concerned for her patient who was nowhere to be found in the room. She was about to to activate her comm to call in a search for the young man before she heard an unfamiliar voice greet her.
"Hello, I'm sorry I didn't want you to sleep on such a hard stool so I laid you on the bed."
She looked behind and found him standing beside the doorway trying to wipe away tears.
"Are you crying? What's the problem let me check is the pain too much? The sedative must have been too low weak " he intervened "no no everything is fine now. I just, I'm happy to be here."
She was intrigued by him "You know us? What are you doing here? I've got so many questions we made that time machine right? "
He motioned her to calm down to allow him to speak " I will tell you everything, I promise mo-I mean Dr. Zeigler, but I think it would be best to talk with everyone about this. I suspect there was more than just you who helped me recover?"
"Oh yes all of us played a part but the biggest contribution was from a woman who doesn't even work here, you should take some rest I will bring the main agents here"
"As you say" Lance was trying very hard not to rush to Angela and wrap her in a hug and never let go. It had been 6 months since he last saw her before she was caught in the explosion of their lab when Black somehow learned to sense Lance's energy."
30 minutes later
Everyone was assembling in their visitor's room.
"Alright everyone silence! Uh you too commander if you can please?"Winston tried to contain his own excitement and maintain some order while not coming off as rude to his superiors.
" You got it Winston! Oi zip it everyone! yelled Tracer trying to look serious before bursting into laughter with everyone else.
"What a shitshow." mumbled Gabriel with a smirk seeing Jack trying to get Reinhardt seated into a chair but none would fit him.
"Uh everyone Can I have a moment? " Lance politely requested at which everyone went silent looking at him.
"As you may have suspected, I'm from another time, the future. I'm here to inform you all that their will be a man coming to you to join Overwatch. I don't know his real name but I know he will go by the name of Regal. He will come to be regarded as the greatest of all heros until... His supposed demise in 2076. But he will somehow return 20 years later with a new name and a mission to wipe humanity and he will crush anyone who comes in his way. "
He continued "Reap-I mean Gabriel Reyes, Tracer, Commander Morrison, Reinhardt, Torbjorn will be die within the first year of his arrival. All the newer agents will follow suit the next year." Everyone's mouth was dropped as soon as he started speaking. They were strangly blown away. They wanted to scoff at him but they knew couldn't believe if he was lying with such a honest and serious face.
Jack still tried to pass this off as a mean Joke "Quit screwing with us, don't believe him agents. He must be working with those incompetent bastards at Watchpoint-Numbani this is a ruse."
"So they put him in a machine EXACTLY like our top secret concepts? " Angela glared at Jack wanting to believe him but she couldn't fool herself. The man she thought was a friend turned out to be a monster.
Tracer was about to give her thoughts before being motioned by Lance to stay quiet.
He was waiting for something to happen. This silence stayed for a good minute before he sighed in both relief and exhaustion thinking of the things to come. "Multi verse theory it is. Shit... " he put his head in his hands.
Angela looked at everyone and motioned them to be patient. She put her left hand on his shoulder "Are you okay? We can do this some other time when you have a clear head if you want?"
He wiped the light tears at his mother's touch and moved away "Its fine, I was just checking if me telling you what happens in the future affects my timeline which would prevent all unfortunate things from happening and result in this version of me vanishing. Seems like it's now become an future alternate universe of this timeline. "
" Now I can come clean, my name is Lance I am, I mean I would be the Strike Commander of Overwatch in the year 2096 before he arrives. We call him Black because that's all we saw for the better part of the first year when he surfaced. We need to find him right now before he makes his move!"
Gabriel put interrupted him "Calm down kid, you were late We already captured him 2 days ago until Angela here (he pointed to Mercy) decided to let him escape."
Angela eyes him repulsing the accusation "I did not! I wanted him get some peace of mind I did not know he would have such intentions."
"It doesn't matter what your intentions were, point is you defied orders and let him go to Nepal."
"It doesn't matter according to my predictions he has to come back around next month." Lance assured him.
"Soo what'cha gonna do till then? " Tracer eyed him and winked. " Well I really hadn't thought about it aunt" he instantly regretted what escaped his mouth.
"Oi who you calling an aunt?! I'm 22! Don't I look young? "she starts looking at herself in the mirror before realising everyone was staring at her causing her to blush.
Angela stops chuckling with everyone when she realises why did he call Tracer his aunt.
" Wait you mean Tracer is really your aunt in the future? "
" Well there is no hiding it now, she is not my real aunt but she's was like an aunt to me my entire life. " he confessed "Although I remember her not being as... cheerful."
"What do you mean 'was'? " Tracer enquired, " You said I was like an aunt your entire life, what do you mean by 'was'? "
" You died. It was supposed to be a simple evacuation mission we had no idea Black would show up."
"That's a stupid name, we need another name. " "What do you suggest Commander?" Lance asked Morrison in a frustrated tone and continued "He looks like my fa- I mean he looks like Regal so we can call him Black Regal" Torbjorn, Gabriel and Reinhardt burst into laughter at what they heard. "Nevermind Black is fine . Black Regal just sounds Racist" Morrison mumbles to himself.
Angela typed something in her holofeed and then clapped her hands to get some attention to her announcement and continue my with a saddened tone "I just sent a letter to the Omnic Sanctuary in Nepal to send Regal back ASAP. I'll not let him be free for long if what you say is true then all of us are in danger." She continued "But they have no communication facilities except mail so it will take a while for the message to reach there. Probably next week."
"Finally something you did right " commented Gabe. Genji tried to argue but was pulled back by Morrison "It's no use, remember he is your superior even if he is an ass at times. Although you must hold some responsibility. Acting against orders was wrong on both her part and yours. Even if it was with a good intention." Genji simply nodded and went outside to the garden to release his frustration Gabriel followed.
Lance quickly stopped Jack from leaving "Now that he is gone I need to tell you that he will betray you 5 years from now and contribute in ruining Overwatch's reputation eventually forcing the UN to shut you all down."
"I don't know kid" sighed Jack in both shock and skepticism and sat on a chair "Gabe is an ass but he can't betray us, at the same time those are some big accusations you are making. You sound genuine but you have little proof except the fact that you came in a machine matching our concepts.
For right now Winston, I want you to take all precautionary tests and check if his face matches with anyone in our global database. And Angela him as a patient here as long as our investigation goes on. "
" Of course, he won't leave my sight. " Angela assured him and looked at her new patient in with her kind eyes. For some reason she believed him even with not much proof. She felt sorry for the young man he seemed to be at an age where kids would go to university for studies but she wasn't sure if her patient had even experienced the joy of childhood. She wanted to comfort him but she also had to make sure he was telling the truth. She didn't want to believe Regal planned to betray them, when she saw him she saw someone too proud to express his pain but not good enough to hide it. She needed to know she was wrong about himfor sure. A facial test of Lance with the world population and criminal database should do the trick to see if he exists on this planet.
2 hours later
The facial tests and Medical results were completed, Winston woke up by the beeping noise of the machine notifying the results were determined. "uh... I really need to sleep after this.." he looks at the printed sheet and immediately tightens his grip with her eyes wide open. He trembles and feels the ground skipping away from under his feet.
He immediately calls Mercy "Angela the tests you performed on Lance revealed some really big things about his heritage."
"Really? That means he not from the future after all right?" he could sense sadness in his voice "No quite the opposite actually he... He belongs to your family. He is.. your son".
1 week later [This is just a look at what was happening the next week with Regal, chapter 8 will continue immediately where we left off at Watchpoint-Gibralter]
Omnic Sanctuary, Nepal
5:30 PM 25th March, 2070
Regal was meditating in his quarters when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He slowly opened his eyes and looked to see Zenyatta with a letter in his hand "This came for you my student. They require your assistance for some urgent matter."
He quietly examined the letter and closed his eyes for a moment. "I feel a strange energy coming from Gibralter" "I can't go right now Master" He requested and carefully put the paper on the table beside them.
Zenyatta didn't change his expressions "I agree you have just arrived and your progress has been been enough but do you think it is right to not help your team in their time of need?"
"But sir finally after decades I have found a sense of belongingness and purpose in my life other than to survive. I told you what happened to my people after the massacre, I had nowhere to go. I have never spent a night in a single place more than once since then."
Zenyatta calmly adviced "Well do be careful, my fellow brothers don't appreciate your love for fighting to become stronger. They feel it is a destructive nature of living Something they are strongly against. "
" And what do you think Master? " Regal wanted to know if his teacher felt the same way, he needed someone to show him the right path for he had been wandering aimlessly for too long.
"I feel that you are different, you are unpredictable and that is why you will find people often critique your choices. But since now you have made no attempts to harm nature, that is all that matters. You need to promise Regal. The technique I saw you attempt yesterday is never to be used again." His voice turned deeper for that last sentence.
"I respect your opinion Master , I will follow any command you may make except this. If I need to protect people, if I absolutely have no other choice, I will do whatever it takes" Regal remained firm in his stance.
"Even if it destroys your body? Your very state of mind? You may lose who you are."
"Master... I promise. " Regal said with his slightly gruff voice. He wasn't sure if he meant it but he hoped to not get into a situation that would force him to go all out.
" Now that we have settled that, how about we go to your team next week? I have been eager to meet Genji too"
"As you wish Sir".
Before going to bed he looked out into the mountains like every night he had ever since getting here "I have been feeling a huge surge in energy for the past week. Something has arrived that does not belong. Something or Someone whoever it is they are far too strong to be an ordinary human. And from the direction of the energy they must be currently at Watchpoint-Gibralter. It will be an interesting meeting. "He smirked and then layed on the mattress to rest. With hope the nightmares would stop he closed his eyes until sleep took him.
Sorry for the late update but I've been getting less and less time for new chapters plus exams and tests are happening every week. But there is a pretty major point in the story coming up.
Will try to update very soon if not please understand. As always leave your opinions, reviews, and thanks for your support. As always see you later!