When Mercy and Genji finally met again, they were on a battlefield. Angela was busy patching everyone up, while the uninjured kept them safe. Reinhardt tried to keep his shield up as long as possible, Symmetra and helped him. But even the three of them couldn't keep the shields up all the time. "We have to retreat and get back-up!", Reinhardt shouted. Then there was a sound of metal screaching on metal. A robotic voice echoed on the battlefield. "RYUJIN NO KEN WO KURAE!", Genji shouted as he jumped across the battlefield, shredding as many enemies as he could before he backed away and took cover behind Reinhardt's shield. He was panting. Mercy's eyes darted to him.
Just as she was about to call out his name, Reinhardt shouted: "Incoming missiles, the shield won't hold up any longer!" The ninja jumped in front of the giant man in armor, just as the shield broke and deflected whatever he could deflect. Then finally Reinhardt's shield went back up and he pulled Genji back to safety.
The ninja fell to his knees, panting heavily as he noticed his wounds. "D-Damn ...", he let out. Mercy ran to him. He tried to get up again, but his legs were shaking and gave up under him. Tracer tried to help him stand. "Don't push yourself, dear. You did enough already.", she said and helped him to slowly sit down and lean against a wooden box. Mercy knelt next to Genji and started healing him. He turned his head to the blonde. "Angela ...", he said. The ninja let his head hang down and he was slowly sliding off the wall towards Mercy, he had fainted.
"We can't stay here like this forever, we'll have to back up! Too many of us are wounded and they just keep coming.", Angela said. "You are right, but where can we hide then? If we lose this point, they will be right at our door!", Reinhardt replied. "You'll have to heal them up, we need everyone on the battlefield.", Soldier said while reloading his weapon. Mercy sighed and did what she could with her staff.
Only a few minutes after Mercy had healed up everyone they went back to the fight. Genji got up as well and wanted to join. "Wait Genji. You can't go fight anymore. I can't repair you here.", Mercy said and pointed at his arm. "Angela ... Thank you for healing me. But we both know, that they will need all the help they can get. Now, let us join them.", he replied and continued to walk towards the battlefield. *He really has changed ... He might be able to even lead them all to victory ...*, Mercy thought.
Once more Genji charged in, protecting everyone he was able to protect and drawing in the attention of the enemies, so his allies could shoot them. Mercy put her focus to healing everyone as much as she could. Tracer rushed in and back out again, to finish the attackers and to give the rest the information, on where the enemy tried to group up.
Finally after a long fight the attackers gave up and backed away. One still shot rockets towards Mercy, who just focused on healing one of many injured. "Angela! Move!",Genji shouted, pushed her away and got hit instead. His right arm was busted, his legs damaged, faceplate busted as well. He hit a wall and fell down, landing face forward on the ground. The green lights on his body flickered. Mercy ran to him. She saw him trying to reach for his faceplate with only one working arm left.
She turned him to his back and took his visor off as quick as she could. Genji instantly took a really deep breath, then he coughed. The blonde used her staff to heal him as much as possible. The ninja coughed up blood. "Angela ... I ... I'm sorry ...", he started. Mercy interupted him: "Don't talk now. Save your strength. I'm here and I'll heal you." Genji closed his eyes, he could barely move and he felt like something heavy laid on his chest, it was hard for him to breathe normally. "You shouldn't have done that ... You were already hurt and now ... I can't lose you, do hear me? I don't want to lose you ...", Angela said, she sobbed, tears ran down her face and dripped onto Genji's. He opened his eyes again and wiped a tear from Mercy's face with the one hand that was still working. "Don't cry ... Please ...", he whispered. Angela grabbed his hand.
Genji flinched and whined silently in pain. "I'm so sorry, I can't help you more ... Healing you as much as I did was the staff's limit ...", Mercy said in a very worried tone. He looked at her. "Don't apologize ... I should be ... thanking you.", he said. She cupped his cheek and softly stroke it with her thumb. "Still I feel sorry that you suffer ... Now please, don't talk and save your strength. We'll get you to the base and I'll patch you up there ...", Mercy said. Genji closed his eyes softly leaning into the touch. He was weak, very weak, even with all the healing Mercy could do. "Please, someone help me to get Genji to the base. We need to get there quickly.", she said. The ninja barely heard half of it, but he grabbed her hand, that still laid on his cheek. Mercy looked at him, she stroke his cheek with her thumb. Reinhardt walked over to the two and picked Genji up. The ninja flinched and whined in pain. "I'm sorry, if I hurt you there.", the giant man apologized. "Let's hurry up, please. I have to get him fixed as soon as possible ... He's in pain and still losing blood ...", Mercy said in a sad tone. Reinhardt started walking with Angela right beside him, her eye laid on Genji, his expression, breathing, movement, she checked everything. His chest barely rose and fell, Mercy used her staff again to help Genji as much as she could. "We should hurry up some more, Reinhardt.", she said. The old man hurried up more, almost jogging to the base in that heavy armor he was wearing.
He brought Genji to the medical wing of the base, where Mercy sent him off then. She worked her magic and did her best to repair Genji. It took a few hours for her to get everything done and another two hours before the ninja woke up again, this time in Angela's room. As he woke, she was right beside him, ready to push him back down if he were to sit up. He just looked at her. "How are feeling?", she asked. "Better ... Weak but better. ... Thank you so much ... Angela.", he answered. "You saved us, so I had to save you ... But I still haven't fixed your right arm completely yet. Sadly I'm too exhausted to finish it today, I wish I could ...", she replied. Genji looked at her for a few seconds. "That's fine ... You saved my life ... again ... I just wanted ... to be of use ... And now ... you should sleep too ...", he said and closed his eyes taking a deep breath and grabbed Angela's hand. "This is your bed ... right?", he asked, but kept his eyes closed. "It is. My room is closer to the Medical Wing and I wanted to watch over you.", she replied. "It's soft ...", Genji said, as he slowly drifted to sleep. Mercy placed her hand on his cheek once more. "Sleep well and have some nice dreams, Genji.", she whispered. It didn't take long and she fell asleep, sitting like this on the bed, next to Genji.
As she woke up again, she noticed she had laid down, her head was on his chest and his arm was wrapped around her. He was still sleeping, peacefully. Mercy smiled and listened to the steady beat of his heart.
Genji woke up some time after she did, he noticed her looking at him and smiling. He couldn't help but yawn at first. "G-good morning, Angela.", he said and blushed. She smiled at him: "Good morning, Genji. How are you feeling?" He had to sort his thoughts for a moment. "Good. There's no pain. ... I still feel a bit weak, but a lot better compared to yesterday. It's a miracle how you're always able to patch me up again ...", he finally replied. "I'm glad you feel better. And today I'll get your arm fixed. But I can't let you join the fight after I fixed you, you know you're still too weak for a fight.", she said. Genji nodded in response. "Can you sit up? Or does it hurt?", she asked. The ninja sat up. "It's fine.", he replied. "Alright, I don't want you to move too much, so I'll fix your arm like this.", she said and started to make preparations.
