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Indiana, United States, a few days after the raid on Talon warehouse

Spending the next few days recovering from the battle and laying low as they had drawn too much attention to themselves from not only Talon but from Overwatch as well, Ghost and Soldier: 76 sat in Soldier: 76's hideout and the watched the news of Overwatch vigilante activity in the Overwatch museum as Winston and Tracer battled it out with Reaper and Widowmaker over the doomfist gauntlet. However, the news afterward concerned the two vigilantes more.

"In other news, Helix Security International continues to work closely with world governments to crackdown on black market and illegal weapons trades across the globe. As of right now, multiple gun runners and ammunition sellers have been brought to justice, the latest one being a former Overwatch supplier named Gordon Bull." the news report announce. Both 76 and Ghost swore at this as Gordon had been their last supplier who had been supplying them with pulse munitions, weapon parts, and repair kits. Over the past months, they had lost multiple contacts and suppliers, mainly former Overwatch agents who 76 have helped in the past, to the crackdown. Many had gone into hiding due to the crackdown while others were busted by Helix Security International.

"Well...shit." Ghost said running a hand through his hair. "What do we do now? He was our last supplier and he was organizing our next supply drop. We burned through a lot of ammo on the raid and we're starting to run low on supplies." 76 knew James was voicing what both of them thought. Due their work as vigilantes taking out gangs and terrorist groups, they're more likely to be shot at on sight by the vendors, if not the customers, at black market sales than welcomed. Because of the same reason, they couldn't acquire supplies and munitions through legal means as they would be arrest on sight by the authorities. There was a third option on acquiring supplies that he had been toying around with in his mind for awhile.

"I have an idea on how we can get supplies." 76 said. "There's a chance that old Overwatch bases still have their supplies in them."

"I thought all the old Overwatch bases were handed over to Helix after Overwatch was shutdown."

"Most were but there was so much lost when the Swiss HQ was destroyed. Base locations, names of hostile and anti-Omnic factions, potential recruits for Overwatch. From what I've seen and the intel gathered by your father, there are a handful of bases that Helix security isn't involved in and have been abandoned and I still the access codes for the bases and their armories."

"And hopefully no other former agents have looted the supplies before we have. Alright, that's definitely start. Any base you have in mind?" Ghost asked.

"Watchpoint Gibraltar, located in the Rock of Gibraltar. The base was an orbital launch site that we used it launch satellites into space. The only people who really knew about the base were the people who were stationed there. Unfortunately, most of the agents that were stationed there have been killed by Reaper and Talon so the base should be deserted and have most of it supplies intact."

"I guess we're going to Europe then." Ghost said standing up. "I'll start packing." 76 just nodded and started thinking of which contacts could get the two of them to Europe without alerting the local authorities or Helix Security.

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Watchpoint Gibraltar

While 76 and Ghost spent the past couple of days laying low and recovering, the Overwatch members who participated in the attack on the Talon warehouse were quickly back on their feet due to the medical knowledge of Angela Ziegler and her nanotech. Not only that but with the amount of Overwatch agents who answered the recall, Overwatch was able to continue operations even with best agents being out of commission for a day.

Back at Watchpoint Gibraltar, Winston and Athena were working hard trying to locate both Talon facilities and information on the vigilante Soldier: 76, as McCree informed the team that he had been present during the attack but was able to almost entirely avoid the Overwatch team. In truth, Winston has heard and seen much of Soldier: 76 in the news and other medias as well as the conspiracy theories that the man was the former commander of Overwatch but could never find any hard evidence of who the man is, only that the way he moves and operates implies advanced military training. That still left a long list of people he could be, even longer if he were to start including people who had died within the last five to six years.

"Athena, any leads on Talon bases or facilities?" Winston asked rubbing his eye. He had been staring at the screen for far too long and wanted to take a break.

"Negative. However, several agents have request extraction from their locations."

"What's the problem?"

"With the growing death toll of former Overwatch agents, some of the agents no longer feel their locations are secure and have requested extraction or backup. However, a few have confirmed the presence of hostile factions at work in their areas and do not have the necessary supplies or manpower to combat those factions should they discover the agent." Athena reported. Winston snorted and quickly went to work. His break would have to wait.

"Athena, please bring up the locations of all agents that have requested extraction or backup." Winston watch as a holographic globe appeared in front of him. On the globe multiple blue dots appeared around the globe, mainly scattered across Europe and Africa but a few were on the other side of the globe on North America. "Prioritize them by which agents need immediate extraction due to immanent danger." Of the around sixteen dots, seven of them changed colours, four changing to yellow and the three changing to red. Unfortunately and fortunately, all the red dots were in relatively close proximity with each other, all being in anti-Omnic countries or areas, which in turn meant that these places were also anti-Overwatch as Overwatch protected Omnics as well had Omnics in their ranks back in the day.

"Winston, one of the agents has just confirmed that Talon's presence in their AO." A tab formed off of one of the red dots. In the tab was a video of Talon soldiers in an alley yelling at a group of gang members, who were beating down an Omnic, to get lost. As the Omnic tried getting up to thank its saviors, the leading Talon soldiers pulled out his sidearm and blew a hole in the Omnic's head with little though, as if he was shooting a practice dummy. The video cut out after that. Winston snorted in frustration. While Talon is a know terrorist organization, some people are willing to overlook that because of their hatred for the Omnics. With the world on brink of another Omnic Crisis, Talon could be the spark that sets it all off. "Athena, prep the dropship for depart and notify the team to meet up in the hanger."

"Affirmative, team has been notify. McCree has also informed me that he finished the list of all the Blackwatch operatives that side with Reyes when they went rogue. Displaying it now." On the screen, the list of names showed up. The list was longer than what Winston had hoped for but it would explain what McCree said about Talon using Blackwatch tactics and when he mentioned one of the Talon agents recognizing him but he'll worry about that later. For now, they had agents to save.

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Timeskip: 25 hours, Watchpoint Gibraltar

After a long trip by plane to Spain then a couple hours on the road to cross the border to Gibraltar, Ghost felt it was in their best interest to catch some shut eye as before heading to the base. While both can handle several days without sleep and have proven doing so, Ghost argued it was the better option to sleep off any kind of jet lag or fatigue they might have been feeling during this 'calm before the storm' as Ghost described it. 76 reluctantly agree but figured that moving under the cover of darkness would be helpful if the base's automated defense were still active for some reason. 76 was the first to wake from his nap as the sun was sinking beneath the horizon. Waking up James, 76 and Ghost continued the last leg of the trip to the old Overwatch base. Activating the night vision mode in their visors, the two silently made their way to the entrance of the base with their weapons drawn. Approaching the entrance, 76 quickly uncovered the keypad and type in his authorization code. The door opened with a hiss and the two vigilantes entered.

"Welcome back, Commander." an automated voice echoed throughout the empty base.

"Athena?"

A/N

Well that's a wrap for this chapter. I know this was a short chapter and probably doesn't met the par set by the previous two chapters but thanks anyways for reading. I really wanted to use this as an opportunity to set up for the next chapter or chapters. I'm also going to apologize here for the timeskips. Due to the Overwatch universe spanning the globe, most travelling portions will be cut unless something interesting happens during them. Also, I'm mostly going to be skipping the day by day when their not doing anything for the most part, especially with 76 and Ghost since it just them gathering information or staking out a target. So unless you guys want that type of thing, I will not be including them.

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