7:45 PM - Shibuya Hospital, Tokyo
I wake up with waves of pain resounding greatly in my temple. My eyes slowly open to see Angela, McCree and - strangely - Fareeha above me. I slowly move my body up to a more comfortable position.
"Woah there, easy Bigshot. From what we heard you got quite a clip on the head." Says McCree with a sense of concern echoing through his words. Angela murmurs something together with the doctor. I quickly come to my full senses though.
"Hana!" I shout out of concern. McCree lays his hand on my shoulder.
"Shimada and Oxton are out lookin' for her. He knows this city better than anyone, and Oxton's the fastest person I've ever seen run. They'll find her in no time." he says trying to calm me down.
"But still, I can't just sit here...not while Hana's been kidnapped!"
"Hang on, kidnapped? We thought she'd just gone missin' and you'd been mugged or something. You sure she was abducted?" he asks in a serious tone.
"Y-Yeah...last thing I saw before blacking out was some tall woman carrying Hana away whilst she was struggling…" before I could say anything else, McCree whipped out his cell phone and dialled up a number.
"Bigshot, tell Shimada everything you just told me. In detail."
"W-Well, like I said, Hana was taken by some woman...tall, red hair and some sort of mask on the left side of her face. That's all I know."
"O'Deorain…" were the only words I could hear coming from Hanzo on the other side.
"Put Mr. McCree back on the line." asked Hanzo. I complied.
"Well, what do you think?" questioned the cowboy to the archer.
"...we need to get my brother involved. He will know where she is, given the kind of people we're dealing with."
"Dealing with? Hang on, you don't mean Talon do you?"
"The one and only"
"Son of a…" McCree increased his grip on the phone as my stomach sank deeper and deeper.
Talon. Enemies of so many, including Hana Song. What did they want her for? My mind began to race. My thoughts were interrupted however by Angela, who had quite the look on her face.
"We're heading back home tomorrow. We have to let Mr. Shimada's brother search for Hana, we don't have the money to stay here after tomorrow. I know how you must feel Jonathan, she's a friend of mine too, but this is the way things are whether you like it or not." she says with a stern voice. Jesus, she could be a little bit more concerned you know? One of her friends was just kidnapped by the biggest terrorist organisation on the planet right now and Angela is just expecting us to go back home like nothing happened?
What a bunch of fucking bullshit.
I get out of the hospital bed and go over to the doctor, who's saying something in Japanese. He waves me off and Angela comes back over to me and gives me a small thumbs up, signalling that I'm okay to leave whenever I want to.
"Mr. McCree, I promised you that I would stay close to Hana. I intend to keep that promise. What's our next course of action?" I asked him, brimming with determination to save the girl I love.
"Hold on there Bigshot let's not get ahead of ourselves. We gotta wait for Hanzo's brother, Genji to meet up with us back at the hotel. He'll know what to do. Until then, let's just hang tight and not lose ourselves okay? You know that's what Hana would want you to do, Bigshot." he says, trying to manipulate me. He knows how I feel. He knows that I know that he knows. He's a clever bastard I'll give him that.
"...Fine. We'll wait on this 'Genji' guy, but what's so special about him anyway?" I ask McCree.
"He's in an Anti-Talon Group headed up by the UN, and he's the sole Japanese representative. He's highly skilled with ninjutsu and short range melee weapons like blades and shuriken, and he's one hell of a talker too, at least from what Hanzo tells me." Said McCree, opening a fresh pack of gum (since he couldn't smoke indoors).
"Well, I hope he's as good as you all make him out to be." II let out a sigh and look vacantly at my hands. How could I let this happen? All because I made Hana vulnerable...this is my fault. I want to save her but...what can I really do to save her? I'm just a normal kid. I'm nothing special. I know nothing about medicine like Angela nor am I athletically talented like Lena.
"Don't lose yourself, Jonathan" says Fareeha from behind me.
"I don't know what you're going through right now but, what's important is that you don't lose yourself. Don't lose focus. If you do, Hana's as good as gone forever. You need to believe."
Damn, I didn't expect that from Fareeha, a girl I never really talk to.
"Right, we're moving out. Back to the hotel ASAP, I ain't losing any other kids damnit" says McCree, basically storming out of the room. The doctor gives me the go ahead to leave and we return to the hotel.
Please Hana….please be strong. I'm coming.
Time Unknown - Somewhere in Tokyo, Japan.
No matter how much she struggled, no matter how much she cried out for Jonathan Cujoh to come in and rescue her like all the heroes in those retro games did, Hana Song's hero would not come. Trapped by an unknown group for an unknown reason. Frightened. Alone. Scared. Terrified. Isolated. Anguish. Hana felt them all in spades and overwhelming emotional waves. She hadn't felt this way since back in Busan.
Cowering up in the fetal position, Hana whimpered only a few short words.
"Jonathan...I love you…"
Hana Song began crying for what seemed like an eternity. An eternity which was short lived. After only a few short minutes, the door in front of her chained form opened up, revealing a woman in a black cloak.
"You're coming with me." Said the woman, whose words had no remorse dripping from them whatsoever. She grabbed the leech which Hana was attached to - truly dehumanizing her - and led her out of the room.
"Good girl" the woman said in a playful tone.
"W-Who are y-you!" asked Hana, desperation excreting from her voice.
"Shut up" replied the woman in front, yanking on Hana's chain. Her hair was messy and her clothes had picked up a bit of dirt from sitting in that prison for a while.
Once again, the tears flowed freely from Hana's lowly hung head.
"Jonathan…*sniff*...please…"
"That guy won't be coming to help you. He'll never find us." says the woman in front, evil secreting through her teeth. They take a turn down the hall to the left, and another turn to the right where they enter what looked like a laboratory to Hana, where she saw the woman who captured her tinkering with some kind of machine.
"Good to see you haven't been playing unfairly with our guest, Widow" said the woman with a distinct South Dublin accent.
"I wanted to have a little fun with her, but you insisted I brought her here..such a shame, I think she would've been a beautiful little plaything" the woman apparently named "Widow" says, sliding her finger down Hana's neck, stopping just atop her left breast...above her heart.
"Everything's in order. We will begin at once." says the Irishwoman.
"W-What are you gonna do t-t-o me?!" cried out Hana
"We're going to make you….
….a woman to be feared by all." said 'Widow', placing and cuffing Hana to a machine. Her head was surrounded by what looked like electromagnetic radio emitters. In front of her eyes was a monitor.
"Widow, begin containment and safety. I don't want this failing" said the Irishwoman. Hana found metal prongs holding her eyelids open, placed there by 'Widow'. Her hands and legs were cuffed to the machine, making her unable to move.
"NO STOP PLEASE STOP I BEG OF YOU! I'LL DO ANYTHING PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" Screams Hana, begging for mercy.
"Oh Ms. Song, we're not going to kill you. We're going to use you" said the Irishwoman in a devious tone.
"You will become Talon's greatest weapon, whether you realise it or not after this...and I get to see it all unfold after this." said Widow with delight oozing off her tongue.
"NOOOOOOOOO! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAATHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN! HHHHHHHHHELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
But her help never came. A series of fluids and chemicals poured themselves into Hana's body, her head began to pulsate with pain from the Electromagnetic Waves and the visions flooding her eyes became too much for her to bear….
For the first time in her life, D. Va had lost the battle of wills, and passed out.
"All signs seem normal. Moira, go put her out on the street near their hotel. Make it look like we harassed her like a common thug. She won't remember any of this immediately, but when she returns with her school…
...our time shall come again. And she will be our puppet to use " said Widow with a rasp in her voice.
(A/N: Howdy y'all! This will be the last chapter that's mainly based in Japan (for now) and the Talon stuff will be mostly going away for a bit after this as I want to start focusing on the romance a bit more when the gang return to school in the next chapter. Thanks for reading, hope you're enjoying the story. Please leave a review! See you next time on Trapped in the Heart of a Gamer where a new student joins McCree's class
And it's exactly who you all think it is.)