A/N
Hey everybody. I hope you are doing well in this new year considering the I started this chapter right after new years. Welcome to the latest chapter of this story. I honestly have nothing of any kind of value except thank you for reading and I hope you stick around. That's it. Disclaimer time.
Disclaimer: Overwatch belongs to Blizzard Entertainment and it's respective developers. All I own is the plot of this story and some of the characters.
Now onto the story.
Greece, 16 minutes until first objective
As the dropship got closer to the first drop point, Ghost awoke to the feeling of something on top of him and the distinct lack of feeling in his legs. With a slight groan, he opened his eyes to the sight of Tracer still sound asleep on him. Blinking hard to make sure he wasn't still asleep, Ghost realized that he was, in fact, awake. As he began panicking on what happened, he noticed that in all his fidgeting, Tracer had begun to slide off of him. Quickly catching her and holding her close, Ghost sighed as he was now wide awake. As he looked at down the sleeping Brit, he couldn't help but smile.
'I can get use to this.' He thought to himself. With another sigh, he looked at the console. "Athena, how much longer until we arrive at the first drop point?" Ghost asked as he looked at the time display in his visor. He had be asleep for almost three hours.
"Fifteen minutes until arrival at drop zone Alpha." Athena said her icon appeared on the console in front of him.
"Who's heading out there first?" Ghost asked as he tilted his head to crack his neck.
"Joker Squad is the first team being deployed." Athena stated. "Might I add that you wake up Agent Oxton. She insisted that she'd be the one to handle the landings."
"Got it. Did anyone come up looking for one of us?"
"Shrike came up once to check up on you but quickly left after seeing your's and Agent Oxton's sleeping arrangement." Ghost let out a quiet curse as he heard that.
"Great." Ghost sighed. If there was one thing he learned about Ana, it was that she loved to tease him and Morrison, especially when it came to matters of a relationships. "Thanks, Athena. I better wake up Lena now."
"Understood." With that, Athena's icon disappeared from the console. Looking back at Tracer, Ghost brought a hand up to his face and removed his mask before gently shaking Tracer. After about a minute, Tracer finally stirred from her sleep and looked up at him half awake.
"I can get use to awaking up like this." She said with a smile before stretching a bit and trying to once again make herself comfortable on top of him.
"You waking up on probably one of the most uncomfortable people to fall asleep on?" James said with a raised eyebrow.
"Of course." Lena said looking him in the eyes with a tired, yet mischievous, smile. "Although I think you'd be a lot more comfortable without all that armor." She watched as James's cheeks quickly turned red before he broke eye contact with an all too obvious fake cough.
"Anyway, we can sleep more later but for now we gotta get up."
"Do we have to?" Tracer mumbled, not wanting to move just yet.
"Unfortunately, yeah. We got a job to do." James replied. "Now off. I need to get the blood flowing in my legs again." With a small groan, Tracer got off his lap and stood up to continue stretching. James attempted to stand up only to fall right back into his seat, feeling unsteady on his feet. Once the feeling had passed, he tried again, this time with more success. As he quickly regained feeling in his legs, he did a few stretches of his own while listening to Athena fill Tracer in what she missed while they were asleep. Once done, Lena took her original seat in the pilot seat.
"Looks like you're up first."
"Seems that way." James said as he looked at the front of his mask, the blue visor staring back at him. As soon as he put the mask back on, it was back to business but before he could do that, he had something else in he wanted to do. "Hey, Lena, before I leave, I wanna give you something." Tracer looked back at him with confused look and walked up to him.
"What is it, love?" She asked looking up at him. James just stayed silent as he gently pressed his lips against hers, making her eyes go wide. However, before she could recover from the surprise and react, James broke the kiss.
"Stay safe out there." With that, he reequipped his mask and disappeared from sight.
"You...too..." She said, barely getting the words out. Her mind was still on the kiss as reached up and touched her lips. Trying to shake the thought of what just happened from her head, she forced herself to return to the pilot seat and prepped the ship for it's descent instead of chasing after him. There would time for that later.
Downstairs, Soldier: 76 and Ana stood away from the rest of Overwatch as they rushed to make their final preparations for their mission when suddenly, Ghost appeared from in front of them.
"How nice of you to join us, James." Ana said with a mischievous smile under her mask. "Did you and Lena sleep well? You two looked quite comfortable."
"For the most part. Although, I still can't feel a few toes." Ghost said, knowing that was coming.
"Are you sure you don't want to spend a little bit longer with your girlfriend? You left her quite flustered after that kiss." Ghost visibly tensed when he heard that. He didn't think anyone saw what he did, especially with how preoccupied everyone was. 76, on the other hand, raised an eyebrow at the statement.
"You saw that?" Ghost said in almost disbelief. He could feel his face heating up under his mask.
"Oh, James, I may have only one eye but nothing escapes my sights." Ana said. 76 let out a small chuckle as Ghost debated the pros and cons of cloaking to temporarily escape Ana's teasing. "And what are you laughing about, Jack?" I saw the way you were talking to Angela earlier." This quickly got 76 to stop laughing as he realized that he was next in Ana's sights. This time it was Ghost's turn to raise an eyebrow.
"Oh? And what was our fearless Commander doing with the good doctor?" Ghost asked, turning the tables on the older soldier.
"Just talking." Soldier said before he changing the topic. "More importantly, you have to get your team ready to move. We're almost at the landing area."
"Yeah, you're right." Ghost said with a sigh. Thinking about the mission, a thought occurred to him. "I have a question. What if the agent is KIA?" The question quickly dampened the mood. The possibility of the agent they were looking for being dead was very likely, especially given the situation, but none of them wanted to entertain the idea and tried to stay optimistic until now.
"Standard procedure. Grab the body and intel and extract."
"And if we can't get the body?"
"Recover their tags. That way we can at least remember them." 76 said. Ghost nodded and walked over off to join his team. His team was gathered around the supplies boxes in the wall. All of them were loading up on the necessary supplies for their mission. Looking at the time, he had roughly less than five minutes before they landed. He could see and feel the ship descending. Walking next to Adam, he checked over his supplies to make sure he had everything and sure enough, he did.
"So what's the op?" He heard Adam asked as he opened up one of his shields to check it over. Looking over he could see that the rest of his team was listening in as well.
"Search and rescue." Ghost answered. "Overwatch lost an agent here and we've been tasked to get them back. His last known coordinates were in the area near the lighthouse so that's where we're starting our search. Our job is to locate the agent and grab them along with any accompanying intel." Ghost explained as the rest gathered around him.
"So what if the agent is down." Adam asked as he placed the shield with others.
"We grab the body and bring them back if we can. If we can't, we recover the tags or some form of identification." Adam nodded in acknowledgement, knowing full well that possibility that the agent might be dead. The rest of them just stayed silent as they waited for the last few minutes of the trip. Finally Athena's voice came over the ship's intercom.
"Arriving at Ilios." Athena announced causing the entire ship to fall into silence. Ghost went over by the door and watched as they approached the edge of the town. "30 seconds."
"You know the music, time to dance." Ghost said, his voice carrying through the entire ship. The rest of Joker Squad gathered up as the dropship slowed. As the dropship came to a halt, the doors let out a hiss to equalize the pressure and a moment later, the doors open. "Move out." With that, Joker Squad rushed out of the door. Once the had disembarked, the door closed and the dropship took off, leaving the newly formed Strike Team on their own.
"Choi, get up high and keep an eye out. Desmond, get Lady prepped to follow me in to some recon. We need to know what we're up against before we come up with a plan."
"Can't you use my callsign?" Desmond groaned as he grabbed Lady and tossed her into the air.
"No." Ghost said. "Everyone else, establish a perimeter and keep your guard up. Turn away anyone who gets too curious." Everyone nodded and moved to accomplish their respective tasks. Lady hovered over to Ghost and hovered over him, awaiting orders.
"I'll control Lady from here. Just point give an objective and I'll get her there." Desmond said, taking a knee and producing a tablet from a hard case pouch attached to his chest piece.
"Keep her out of sight. I'll mark buildings that I want you check out." Ghost said as he pulled a corded out of his tac-pad and plugged it into the tablet. A process bar appeared on the tablet and the tac-pad and quickly filled to 100% "Sync complete. You should be able to see anything I mark now and I'll be able to see whatever Lady sees." He pointed to a building, marking it to test the connection. Desmond watched through the tablet and saw the outline of the building Ghost pointed at light up.
"I see it. Connection's good." Desmond said giving him the thumbs up. "Good hunting out there." Ghost nodded and cloaked, Lady following nearby. For the next fifteen minutes, he and Lady searched the town for any sign of their agents and avoiding Talon patrols but as Ghost made his way through the town, he noticed something extremely off about the town. Marking another building he wanted Lady to check out, he headed up some stairs to check out another building. Searching around the building, he found more signs of life but no sign of the people who lived there.
"Where is everybody?" Ghost muttered to himself before tapping his radio. "Dez, find anything?"
"Nothing. No sign of our agent or the townspeople." Desmond reported.
"Same thing on my end." Ghost said as he made his way into the building. As he turned the corner, he saw a Talon Soldier walking off onto the balcony. "Alright, have Lady get up high and start looking for threats." Ghost after knocking the guard out and dragging the body out of sight. Across the square, the other guard looked over to notice something was wrong.
"Not good. I'm counting at least 20-25 Talon operatives stationed here." Desmond mumble. "Heads up, I'm seeing a group of Talon troops going into the room at the base of the lighthouse. Could be where they're holding our missing agent."
"Copy that, I see 'em." Ghost said as he lowered himself on the balcony and zoomed in with his visor. The room at the base of the lighthouse had been cleared out of all furniture, with the exception of one chair in the middle of the room, occupied by a man who was slumped over. Zooming in on the occupant of the chair, his visor did a quick scan of the person and confirmed it was the missing agent. "That's our man." Ghost said as he marked the location of the agent. Noticing the timer on his cloak was about to end once more, he quickly made his way away from the balcony over into one of the shadows of the previous room. As he waited for his cloak to cool down, his radio beeped.
"Sir, be advised, we have a Talon dropship in bound to our AO." Desmond's voice came over the radio." Ghost peeked around the wall and saw the Talon dropship in the distance heading to the complete oppose it side of town from where he and his team deployed from.
"Got it. Alright, I'm on my back. Keep Lady on standby but keep her hidden." Ghost ordered as he cloaked once more. Quickly making his back to the rest of his team, Ghost was greeted by Desmond walking up to him with his tablet.
"We have a problem." Desmond reported, handing Ghost the tablet. "It's the reinforcements that came with that dropship." Looking at the live feed, it showed the three new arrivals. Like the other Talon soldiers, the armor and helmets wore were coloured black and/or dark gray. However, that's where the similar ended. The one leading the small group was of average height, their helmet was reminiscent of an old medieval crusader helmet with what looked like small dragon wings coming off of the sides and a one handed sword strapped to their left hip. As Lady zoomed in on the knight, a pistol with an extended magazine and a small bayonet attached could be barely seen on their right thigh, which Ghost assumed was done magnetically. The man behind the leader was a much taller and much bulkier man, carrying a heavy machine gun that was being feed ammo from the belt that attached to an ammo box on his back. The last member of the group was a woman armed with an assault rifle and had a large bag her back that gave them the feeling that whatever was inside wasn't cupcakes and party snacks. "Any ideas who they might be?"
"No clue but I don't like the look of them." Ghost said, not taking his eyes off the live feed, watching them look up to respond to a guard on the balcony above. Something about those three didn't sit well with him. As they watched the three enter the building at the base of the windmill, Ghost turned to Desmond. "Alert the others of what we just saw and tell them to get ready. We move out in three mikes."
"Copy that." Desmond said as walked over to everyone else and called them over while Ghost rewatched the footage of the three new arrivals on his tac-pad. Giving them a brief summary of what they just saw of the new threats, everyone nodded and prepped their gear. Within the next minute, Joker squad was out of the building and moving swiftly down the streets, following Ghost's lead.
Joker Squad spent the next while avoiding patrols and sneaking their way closer to the objective. As the team was about to reach the stairs that lead up to the second floor balcony that overlooked the objective, Ghost held up his hand and the group halted. Before they could ask why they had stopped, a voice could be heard from around the corner.
"I'm telling you, man. There is something wrong with those three." the voice said as it got closer.
"Yeah, well, what are you going to do about it? From what I heard, they're suppose to be part of some badass mercenary commando group was hired to work with those freaks Reaper, Widowmaker and their stupid brat, Sombra, since the last group that went with Reaper ended up in jail or didn't come back come back at all."
"Wait, then why are they even here? I thought those three were sent to Russia to carry out a hit on someone."
"I don't know probably has something to do with that spy we caught when we cleared out the town." one of the voices said.
"Still can't believe we basically wiped out the entire town."
"Had to be done. They got in our way and we wanted what was at the excavation site." the voice said as they turned the corner. The two Talon soldier that came into view stopped for as they came face to face with Joker Squad. Neither of soldiers were armed as they stopped carrying weapons after they took control of the town a few weeks ago. Inching away slowly, the two soldier tried to make a break for it only for one of them grabbed Adam and the other one's face collided with a cloaked rifle stock courtesy of Ghost, knocking him unconscious. Tossing the unconscious man to the side, Ghost proceeded to turn his attention to the other man who Adam had against the wall with his forearm to his throat.
"What do we do with him?" Adam asked as he slammed the man against the wall as he struggled for freedom which only got Adam to tighten his grip.
"Depends on how cooperative he is?" Ghost said as drew a knife and checked over the blade causing the Talon soldier to still as he caught sight of the knife. Adam knew what Ghost was doing and played along, knowing fully that Ghost had no intention of torturing the man. His time working with Ghost and 76 in the past has taught him that the two got their information a few different ways and from the ways things were going, it seemed that they were going with intimidation. The other member of the team, however, watched in a silence as the thoughts of them potentially torturing an enemy combatant entered their mind. They didn't like the idea of torturing people and viewed it as a radical form of information gathering that only Blackwatch and Talon would do.
"Wait, please." the man managed to choke out. "I'll talk." Adam looked back at Ghost for confirmation. When Ghost nodded, Adam loosened his grip on the man's throat.
"What is Talon doing here?" Ghost asked.
"I don't know. Us grunts weren't told anything specific. Just that we would be providing security for the dig site and the surrounding town."
"So you're wasting my time then?" Ghost asked with feint annoyance.
"Wait! From what I heard, they're excavating some kind of artifact from the dig site on the other side of the island."
"What kind of artifact?"
"I don't know. Just that it's really old and worth a lot of money. Talon wanted to sell it to highest bidder to fund something."
"And the townspeople?"
"Most of them are dead. Either they were executed or they died while excavating whatever helln we were digging up. The ones that are left should still be at the excavation site."
"How many of you are stationed here?"
"I don't know, about 40 to 50."
"Last question. What about the three mercs that arrived by dropship?"
"They're some kind of commando group. We weren't briefed on them. We were just told to stay out of their way. That's all I know, I swear." He look at Ghost with in fear. Ghost stared down the man for a few more seconds before he sheathed his knife.
"Drop him." Adam nodded and let the man go. The man fell to his hands and knees as he he tried to get more oxygen back into his lungs. As he sat back and leaned his back against the wall, he came face to face with Ghost's knee slamming into his face, denting the Talon soldier's mask inward and slamming the back of his helmeted head into the wall, knocking him unconscious. "Thank you for your cooperation." Turning to the rest of his team, Ghost soon found himself slammed against the same wall they had the Talon soldier pinned against by Garret.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? You can't go around threatening and torturing people for information, even if they're our enemy." Garret hissed.
"Garret, stand down." Desmond said as Adam took his attention off the street he was looking down to focus on Garret to make sure he didn't try to hurt Ghost.
"No, I'm not going to stand here while he treats this like some kind Blackwatch operation. It's because of people like him that Overwatch got a bad name in the first place. It's because people like him that people viewed us as no better than Talon or those traitors from Blackwa-!?" Garret said as his voice was getting progressively louder as he got more and more angry, applying more and more pressure to Ghost's throat with his forearm at the thought of Ghost and Ironwood using intimidation and even resorting to torture to force the man to talk. However all thoughts and words were interrupted when Ghost quickly turned the tables on the agent. Grabbing his arm and twisting it behind him, nearly dislocating it in the process, Garret's face impacted the stone wall with a enough force to stun him and almost render him unconscious.
"I would advise you to listen to Desmond's advice. I wasn't going to torture anyone but you need to shut the fuck up before you say something you regret." Ghost said as the distinct whirling noise of a gun barrel spinning up was heard from behind him. Looking over his shoulder, he knew he wasn't the only one who heard it as Adam quickly spun around with his ballistic shield engaged and caught the burst of heavy machine gun rounds and the follow up fire from the Talon soldiers with him when the gun quickly jammed, with the shield, almost knocking Adam off balance with the force of the bullets while Ghost pushed the dazed Garret to the side to be grabbed by Victoria and Luna.
"Contacts!" Adam shouted as he fired off a long burst from his submachine gun. The heavily armored man tanked the burst for the most part but as the recoil of the guns caused the bullets to travel up toward his head, he used his arm to cover his head and a small particle barrier wall generated in front of him. The two Talon soldiers that stood behind him continued to fired at Adam only to have their bullets blocked by their side of the wall as well. "Ghost, my shield can't take another hit like that and if the shield doesn't give then my arm will." Hearing this, Ghost was forced to came up with a plan to disengage and regroup.
"Choi, V, grab Garret and start falling back. Desmond, have Lady cover them while you take point. Adam, we're rear guard." Ghost ordered as he shouldered his pulse rifle and the fired off a few rounds at the edge of the Particle Wall to keep the enemy soldiers behind it. With orders given and no time to argue, everyone quickly jumped to complete their tasks. With the rest of the team moving, Adam and Ghost watched the particle wall start to deteriorate. Priming a grenade, Ghost tossed at the base of the wall causing the Talon soldiers to let out a loud curse as the wall disappeared and tried to get away but the grenade went off, killing the two lightly armored soldiers and injuring the heavily armored mercenary.
With their pursuers halted temporary, Adam and Ghost ran to join the rest of their team. Regrouping with the others, they started their retreat down the street came down from. However, as they were reaching the end of the street, another squad of Talon's soldiers, this time lead by the knight, came around the corner. Reacting on instinct, Desmond fired as he ran, scoring a few hits on some of the soldiers and causing the others to dive for cover.
"Contacts front!" Desmond yelled as he slid into cover to reload. "We're cut off." As the group got closer together, Adam ran up front and slammed his shield into the floor, causing it to detach from the magnetic bracer and expanded outward to provide more cover.
"Ghost, please tell me you have a plan?" Victoria asked. Ghost's brain went into overdrive as he went through every possible solution in his head, trying to find the one that got everyone out alive.
'Really wish 76 was here right about now.' Ghost thought to himself as he weighed his options. Looking back down the way they came, he saw a few enemy soldiers come running around the bend of the street, only for them to be driven back the collective fire of Luna and Victoria, letting him know that soon or later, that heavily armored mercenary would be upon them soon as well. Knowing they were out of time, Ghost went with what he had. "We have to go through them. Dez, we're dealing with guys in the front. V, get Garret back on his feet and ready to fight. Adam, Choi, I need fire support rear. Keep that heavy from opening up with his weapon when he shows up. Cook the bastard if you have to." Ghost ordered as he rushed to front to help Desmond deal with the squad ahead of them. Everyone did as they were told without hesitation. Sliding behind the already heavily damaged ballistic shield now turned mobile cover, Ghost leaned out to deliver a quick burst from his pulse rifle into the chest of a Talon soldier who had tried to line up a shot on the members of his team as they were getting into position.
Getting to work on trying to get Garret out of his dazed state, V tried the basics of trying to get some. When shaking him failed, she tried a hard slap. That, too, failed, and with the threats getting closer and hearing Luna curse loudly from a graze, she decided her best solution laid within her medical pouch. Removing a syringe from her pouch, she injected it straight into Garret's arm and waited for a few moments for it to start taking effect. With a sharp inhale, Garret was sitting up right with his eyes wide open. His mind was going into overtime as he tried figuring out the situation they were in until Victoria grabbed both sides of his face and forced him to look at her.
"Hey, look at me. We're in a bad position here and we need you to focus to get the job done. Adam and Luna need help dealing with the big guy in the back." As if on cue, Adam called out with some bad news.
"We got enemy reinforcements showing up! We can use some back up." Without needing to be told, Garret shouldered his launcher and went to assist the two in the rear. Seeing Garret coming, Adam rolled out of his cover and deployed his second ballistic shield to soak up some more fire as Garret took up cover in his previous spot. Standing up, Garret took aim to fire a rocket at attacking Talon soldiers, blinking hard to correct his vision. Firing the first rocket, the first rocket went wild as the flew past the Talon operatives and destroying a small cluster of crates. From the smoke of the explosion came the heavily armored mercenary, gun barrel spinning, letting loose a volley of bullets. Ducking behind cover, the heavy machine gun rounds ripped through the air around them, either pinging off Adam's shield or finding a home in the surrounding walls. The volley, however, was redirected as a rocket flew through the hail of lead, splitting into a small cluster four rockets. The majority of the rockets were destroyed in the wall of bullets but one rocket made it through and heading for the cluster Talon operatives. However, moments before the rocket could impact, the mercenary put up his particle wall once more, stopping the firefight in it's tracks. Looking at one another, one of the soldier looked at the wall before trying to touch it, only to find that his hand went through it. With that knowledge, the soldiers tried to to push through the wall only to pick of by precision fire from Luna or a burst from Ironwood's submachine gun, forcing them back behind the wall to wait for it to collapse. "We're secure back here but I don't know for how long." Adam called as he dropped another one of Talon's soldiers with a well placed shot before reloading.
"Copy that. Dez, V, let's mop 'em up." Ghost said. Crouched against the wall next to Desmond, V nodded as she flicked the switch on her carbine into semi-auto mode and fired at the remaining attackers. Following in suite, Desmond and Ghost popped out cover and opened up on Talon squad ahead of them, eliminating most of the enemy squad, leaving only the knight left.
With an annoyed grunt, the knight blind fired the rest of her magazine, causing Ghost and his team to get duck back down, and letting out a silent curse as the magazine went dry. Reattaching the pistol to her thigh, the knight rolled out her cover and drew her sword. Over her left forearm, a red kite shield was formed, using the same technology of the heavy's particle wall and her armor shimmered as a holographic copy of the knight rushed forward. Rushing forward behind the hologram as Ghost and his team came back up to fire again, the Overwatch team hesitated out of confusion at the sudden introduction of the holographic combatant and which one to fire out. Using the brief moment of hesitation to her advantage, the knight lunged forward at a surprising speed while the hologram absorbed a few of the rounds before dissipating and shield protected the from almost everything else. Shield bashing the combat engineer that had been giving her trouble since they first began this engagement, she sent him flying back into the medic, the energy shield shattering on impact. With a quick turn, the knight slashed at Ghost only to slash at the nothing but empty space. A moment later, Ghost uncloaked and bashed his rifle's stock into the knight's helmet, staggering her back before Ghost fired off the rest of his power cell at her, scoring a hit on her leg and driving them back to behind cover. A moment later, the pesky drone came back around and assisted in the surpressive fire, keeping the knight effectively pinned.
With the knight and the heavy pinned, Ghost used this as an opportunity to call for a retreat and escape.
"Alright, Joker Squad, this is our chance. Fall back and regroup." No one had to be told twice. Desmond and V were the first ones to slip away, followed by Adam and Garret, who fired to another rocket to as the particle wall collapsed, taking out several Talon soldiers, halting the push forward of the attacker. Being the last to retreat Luna and Ghost took it upon themselves to further delay their pursers. Luna sniped anyone who dared to show their face in her scope while Ghost attached a charge to the base of the now basically destroyed ballistic shield before the pair retreated with Lady following close behind.
With Overwatch on the run, a small squad of Talon troops pushed forward to pursue and eliminate the retreating enemy. However, as they pushed forward to where the Overwatch team was held up, a subtle beep noise was heard as they passed by to secure the area and a medic ran up to check on the knight. As the rest of Talon's troops caught up, the charge Ghost placed went off, engulfing several Talon operatives in flames and killing more with the shrapnel, sending a small fireball into the air followed by a large cloud of smoke that could be seen from the excavation site all over Ilios. Letting a cloaked Ghost slip away without problem in all the confusion.
As the threat of shrapnel and debris raining down on what was left Talon's forces passing, the knight stood up on shaky legs with the medic behind her and surveyed the damage. Several laid dead or dying with anyone who still stand rushing to their aid in hopes of keeping them alive until medics arrived. Limping out from behind her cover, she found her fellow mercenary also surveying the damage, his armor burned and had dented tanking so many bullets. His gun was damaged, with ammo belt shredded and some of the barrels having shrapnel lodged in them. Without even looking at her, he knew she was there and spoke.
"They're tough, I'll give 'em that. We had the jump on them and they still beat us back. Counted at least nine dead from the firefight on my side."
"Six dead on my end. How many did we lose in the explosion?" the knight asked as she grimaced at the bodies around her. Some of them were still moving, moaning in pain. Other's laid dead, laying in pools of their own blood, some not even having all of their limbs.
"Hard to say. Eight are already confirmed dead with more on their way from the look of it." He said as he watch a team of medics rush past to aid the injured. "Any idea who they were?"
"Don't know but they called themselves Joker Squad. Never heard of them before but they've certainly caught my attention now."
"We going after them?"
"No. We're in no shape to fight right now. Instead, we'll let them come to us. Tell the troops to pull back to the lighthouse and double the guards on the prisoner." the knight said as a medic came over to checked her over and patch her up. "Oh, and Grinder, tell Stalker to set her traps. Their leader can go invisible so make sure they working off of motion sensors."
"Yes, ma'am." With that, Grinder walked off to deliver the orders and fix his damaged weapon while she sat down to let the medic do his job.
A/N
And that's a wrap. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen for being patient while waiting for this chapter and I hope you enjoyed it. This chapter had be delayed and delayed for so long that it's honestly been almost exactly a month since I started writing it. Huzzah for being easily distracted.
So couple things that you may have or have not noticed that I will now mention. If you haven't noticed, I've made Ilios much larger than it actual is in the game for the story. Didn't seem right to keep it as such a small town. Other locations that I plan to feature may or may not have this so I will let you know. And yes, I did added more enemies that aren't going to get offed in one engagement. We have the names of two of the people, Grinder being the heavy gunner and the Stalker being other one who will get a chance to showcase her abilities in the next time. Our holograph creating, shield bashing, sword swinging knight hasn't had her name introduced yet but will be next time and I promise it will be even more edgy than the other two. I'm curious to know what you guys think them. Let me know.
It really didn't show up in this chapter and I'll do my best to show in next time but we do see some slight clashing ideas of how Ghost is use to doing thing compared to how Overwatch's, especially Garret's, view of how things should be done. Anyway, enough about that.
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