"No, stop. Get away. Stop." Noah mumbled as his sight brought him to a danky little room with a few people looking down on him. His visor was still on, though slightly cracked now. Trying to focus, Noah could barely see the looming figures as one grabbed his head and pushed down.

"Let's give him another dose. See if it'll calm him down." A painful jab in his neck snapped Noah out of his distraught state. He could feel the cold pouring through his veins and warped his eyesight to a more...controlled state.

His hair was pulled and forced him to look straight into the ugly faces of his captors. "Good morning sunshine, how was your little nap."

"..." He looked around and saw he was bound by rope against a chair.

"Eh, that's understandable. You know just be glad we didn't we didn't give you a bigger dose. I'm sure you're little mind would break." The slime behind the last word could be felt and Noah felt more rage than fear. "Give this man some water. He's gotta talk."

One of the mooks brought a cask of water and Noah swallowed dryly. As tempting as it was, the water could be drugged as well. And another trip was the last thing he wanted to go through his mind. They didn't give him a choice and forced him to drink. Water sputtered out, but Noah couldn't help but savor the small stream given to him. The parched desert that was his throat was extremely grateful for this and the pain throbbed less and less.

"See that wasn't so tough. You should be more trusting."

"I...I don't trust people who tie me up without consent. At least wine and dine me first." That was terrible, but if anything should survive it should be a sense of humor. That was his lifeline at the moment. "That's reasonable, but we got a small question for a man like you."

Noah's head snapped the left as his right cheek was burning with pain. "How did Overwatch know about us?"

"Internet." He responded with a hoarse voice. Another punch. "Keep talkin like that and we'll have to take desperate measures." Noah spat some blood out from the cut in his mouth. "Look pal, I just joined like a month ago. I don't know the details."

"Of course you don't. Then we should get to talking to that Omnic you brought with you."

"Omnic." Noah's eyes widened.

"Yes, the one you called Genji. Honestly you should play along with those tin cans. They might get the idea that they're human. Scrap is what they are."

"H-Hey, he's human."

"Sure he is. That's what he cried out when we tore off a finger. Did you know that robotic shit has the audacity to wear human skin underneath. I had to stop on of our boys from," He simulated a gunshot. "Though he could be more reliable considering he'll be much easier to break than McCree, who's currently going...stimulating exercises."

Noah listened carefully and he could almost hear the faint screams from down the hall. "You son of a bitch! I'll kill you if hurt them anymore."

"Oh, it seems we got another stubborn one. Excellent, this is going to be fun. Boys have fun with him, I'll go attend to our main prisoner." The leader left the two henchmen with Noah and closed the door with a loud slam. Noah looked at his jailers with utter contempt.

A couple minutes later, Noah found himself on the floor. The small trickle of blood formed a small puddle and everything hurt. Blinking hurt. Breathing hurt. "Come on just tell us. Our knuckles hurt from hitting you repeatedly plus it gets boring after awhile."

"Do you think they'll send any other Overwatch agents to come rescue them?"

"Doubt it, I bet they don't even know they're missing. You know how they can handle them for periods at a time."

"True, true. Though if they did send any agent who'd you think it'd be?"

"Oh maybe someone like Lucio or . It'd be nice to hold a couple of celebrities hostage."

"Though how bout Mercy or that Pharah chick?" Noah's attention suddenly drew on that conversation. He struggled to flip over and moved his wrists. To his surprise, his wrists started to move free from its bonds. The blood and sweat made his arms and wrists slick. "I don't know about Pharah. She constantly wears that armor."

"Ah just imagine it as a gift wrapped up."

"Nah, I prefer the Angel. Now that's a lady I wouldn't mind being healed by or the other way around. I'd love to play Doctor." Noah held back a loud rant at that and suppressed it. They were going to regret those words. Their pain was their only form of payment. "Or how about that other chick. The Brit."

Noah's blood froze. Now he realized Tracer had her fans, but to hear these guys say it disgusted him to no end."You know I never was into British chicks, but I think I can make an exception. Especially to see those orange pants hanging off by my bed. She really doesn't leave much to the imagination in those pants." He struggled even harder and freed one wrist. His second one quickly followed. "Anyways enough of that. We knocked the prisoner out of the light. Wanna bet he's bleeding to death?"

"How much?"

"Twenty doll-" The chair flew out of the shadows and struck one of them right in the face. It broke on contact and wooden pieces scattered on the floor. His friend freaked out before seeing Noah jump out and tackled him. The man struggled hard against the agent's tight grip before slowly succumbing to the darkness. Noah panted after finally putting them. However the first was still up and trying to crawl away.

"Oh no you don't." Noah stumbled over and kicked the guy on to his back. The man almost screamed, but Noah stepped on his throat and slowly applied pressure. "Where are Genji Shimada and Jesse McCree? And if I get a hint that you're lying to me, I'll crush your larynx right here, right now."

The man's eyes widened in fear and under his current conditions sputtered out their locations. Genji was a few doors down and McCree was taken to the end of the hallway. "And the antidote to the drugs you gave us." For extra measurement, Noah started to cut off his air supply. The man frantically pointed to the cabinet near the wall. With a small genuine thank you, Noah kicked the guy across the face and knocked him out.

The pain was still there and all the movement just irritated it. Taking a deep breath and pushing forward, Noah opened the cabinet and found several needles with a strange purple hue. Picking up a medical bag for needles, he collected several for both his comrades and for Angela to synthesize. Who knows who else got this type of poison. Talon or any other mercenary group would fight tooth and nail just for a sample of what Deadlock has. Little did he know of the cameras watching him and someone watching the footage.

"Oh, well what do we have here?" A woman clad in purple and pink was watching the screens with a peaked interest. Pulling up a holo-keyboard she zoomed in on the agent and gave a low whistle. "Hm, maybe this encrypted channel could let me talk to them."

Armed with only a sharp piece of wood from the chair, the agent took a steady breath and pressed onward. Pushing the door open, Noah looked down the poorly lit hallway and noticed it was part of an underground tunnel. The rooms were metal, but the walls underneath was all dirt. Forcing himself to move, Noah made sure the coast was clear in each room. Two rooms were empty and the third was filled with total junk.

'Come on man where are you?' He heard the sickening crunch of metal right next to the third room and guessed that's where Genji was. Finding the door and pushing it ever so slightly, Noah peeked in and found the sight to be horrifying.

Genji was on the ground with his short sword stuck in his leg and the bandits waving his katana like a toy. And from the low lighting, Noah could see what is Genji's blood splattered over the floor. "You know I like this thing. You get a real sense of being a samurai."

"Yeah, yeah, but hey I want a turn with that. We gotta see how strong that sword is."

"I dunno, we got a pretty good candidate right here. Isn't that right Omnic."

Genji looked up with no emotion in his eyes as the mask covering it was knocked off. "You may call me an Omnic, but an Omnic is still more of a man than you ever were monster." Noah quietly slipped in and got ready to strike.

"You little bastard, I'll kill y-AGH!" A wood handle found itself deep in the man's neck and blood spurted out. His friend couldn't react fast enough as a devastating left hook sent him twirling. Genji sat up against the wall and was breathing heavily. Despite his calm demeanor, the storm within his mind continued to rage.

"Genji! Genji, come on pal." He grabbed Genji's mask, but before helping him put it on, Genji swung at him. "Whoa! Hey calm down."

"You will not take me! I'd rather die than submit to you." The feral look in his eyes replaced the brief moment of weakness he saw before. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you. I just gotta-" He dodged the next swing and pulled out the needle. Genji tried limping away, but Noah pulled him over and got on top of him.

"Come on! I'm trying to help you." He blocked one punch and the that really bruised his arm. "Stubborn little, there!" Jamming it the small exposure of his neck, Genji hissed in pain as Noah held him down. The struggle was brief before he finally calmed down and Noah fell off next to him.

"Egh, Noah...where…?"

"We gotta get out of here." He looked at Genji's leg and grabbed the handle. "Try not to scream." Genji gritted his teeth tightly as Noah removed the blade from the leg and put it on the floor gently. "Alright, we need to get McCree and get the hell out of here."

"Agreed." He tried to stand up, but his leg had other plans. "Damn. They got us good. Noah, what was that?"

He shrugged his shoulders and had Genji lean on him. "I don't know, but that's some strong weapon they got there. We'll get our chance to learn about it sooner or later. For right now, we got to get McCree. We can't leave him behind." He reached for the short sword and the katana.

"Let me hold my katana. I think you should on to my wakizashi. You need a weapon." Noah grunted in agreement and help lug Genji to the door. They found one guard wandering closer to the rooms and checking said rooms. When he caught a glance at him, he yelped and fired one shot. Genji deflected that and the bullet was sent right back between the guard's eyes.

"You have to teach me that when we get back home."

"Oh have you recently received bionic upgrades to your arms?"

"Ha, ha, ha, funny." The continued toward the end of the hall and finally reached the ending room. Noah listened in and could hear grunts and the sound of fist meeting flesh. "Ok he's in here. Get ready for a fight."

Genji let go of Noah and wobbled around on one leg. "Are you sure you're ready?"

"Trust me Death has come closer to me in my youth than now. I'll be fine." He kicked the door open and the shocked voices of the people within gave them the signal to go in. Even with an injured leg, Genji was able to dash in and cut down several people. Noah swung his blade and cut a few down on his own.

In less than a minute the two cleared the room and let the adrenaline pushing through their system die down. The former thief looked down and saw one of the few men he killed was the ringleader from his torture group. He stepped over his body and joined Genji without giving that man another thought. Genji and Noah took a few seconds to breathe as the chuckle of McCree brought their attention toward them.

"Well I'll be damned. I didn't think rescue would come by so easily." Noah walked over and pulled out the second needle. "McCree, how do you see me?"

"A bit shadey. You don't need to give me a big dose though. Those bastards wanted me somewhat aware of reality. You just need to put a good half." He turned his neck and Noah injected the serum in his neck. McCree's eyes tightened at the injection, but he didn't complain. "Thanks partner. Honestly, I thought they killed you guys."

"As did I. I awoke to horrifying images and our captors looking down on me." Genji shivered slightly at the recent memories.

"Escape is now the prime objective. We can return and get our payback on these bastards, but we need to let everyone else know what they got here." McCree took Noah's hand and used it to pull himself up. "They got a goddamn hallucinogen. And a strong one at that."

Noah rubbed the back of his neck and let McCree lean on him. Right now the clean faces that left Overwatch were now beaten and ugly. Genji and Noah got off better than McCree though. They really seemed to hate him with a passion. "Oh, what I wouldn't give to have the doc here and fixen us up."

"Heh, Dr. Ziegler seems to have a knack to fix broken men like us."

"Nah, some whiskey can help with that."

"Doctor first, drinks later." The three enjoyed the small moment of peace before McCree went serious. "Alright now the best thing we can do is summon our dropship. And we can do that with the Overwatch communicators with our equipment."

The only problem was that they were unprepared. Genji only had his swords and even though that maybe enough this meant he was only good for close range combat. McCree's holsters and ammo was seized and Noah's grapple gun was missing. And it was easy to assume that the communicators were taken away as well.

"We better get a move on. If we lose our equipment, we'll die here."

"Real ray of sunshine there, McCree." McCree grunted and told them to move out. Helping Jesse walk, the two took the lead and let McCree come up with what to do. They pushed the door open and heard the grumble of guards getting closer. Genji readied himself as Noah went into a protective stance over McCree.

"What do you see, Genji?"

"Two men waiting at the doors. They're relaxed as if nothing's wrong, but…"

"But?" They asked Genji. He shushed them and urged to listen to what was being said. McCree and Noah stood still as the ninja leaned closer to hear.

"...and that's why we should kill them now."

"Are you stupid? We finally got him. That bastard's gonna pay for what he's done to our gang. He helped those Overwatch pricks ruin our livelihood. And you don't want to savor it."

"Well, I do. And I was thinking we can kill him with his own gun." Genji saw them holding McCree's revolver. He nodded at Noah and he gently put McCree down. He moved next to Genji and found a tale with their equipment.

Genji drew his blade out and prepared to strike. Noah put his blade between his fingers and took aim. In total sync, they both launched their attack. Neither guard noticed each being impaled by blades as both died at the same time. Noah walked up and took Genji's short blade out of his enemy's skull and Genji pulled his enemy off his blade.

"Nice teamwork you too." McCree said as he limped in. Noah went over to help him, but McCree just pointed at his revolver.

Complying, Noah gave the cowboy his gun and soon picked up his own equipment. His communicator, grappling hook, and the storage drive were once again back in his possession. He turned to McCree, but the soft glow of a screen caught his attention.

"Alright, I'm calling the ship over. And placed the distress beacon for it to find us. We need to reach the surface and it'll be waiting for us." McCree said. Genji followed McCree, but both stopped at the sound of typing. Looking behind him, they saw Noah typing furiously on a computer with Winston's drive attached to said computer. "The hell you doing?"

"Well, I like to think we'll be leaving here with something boys." Encrypted files were being transferred to the drive and McCree smirked at the notion. "I suppose we can wait for a little while. Genji watch us." The ninja nodded and went to higher ground. McCree was going to wait from a distance and had his Dead-Eye ready.

Noah kept pulling more and more files up and trying to determine which was important and which was not. "Alright let's see...guns, weapons, cat videos? Recent political pollings? Lonely singles in your area? Geez, they used this computer for everything. Ah, here's more." In the weapons files, classified information was shown and encrypted.

"Ok, ok. We seem to have a good thing going on." Noah smiled at the results. He was going to pass out the second they got back from the mission, but sleeping with success was better than failure. "Yes, we do got something good going on. And by we, I mean me."

Noah looked at the screen in sudden confusion and his ear piece chuckled an unknown voice. "Hey thanks for opening some of these files you saved me a few extra seconds of work. It's not everyday you find someone trying to steal these guy's shit."

"E-Excuse me?" Noah whispered. "Oh don't worry you're little cute face about it. I've just got a job to keep. Speaking of which, I better not waste anymore time."

The screen started glitching out and a small skull appeared there. "Wow I've seen shitty security, but this is a new low." Noah looked appalled at the screen and tried to do something. "Don't bother. I've got this network by the hair and I rather not hurt a cute one like you. I rather like a face unscarred."

"What the…? Who are you? Tell me!"

"Everything alright there?"

"No, we got an uninvited guest."

"No need to talk about yourself that way."

"I'm talking about you!"

"Excuse me, Noah."

"Not you McCree, this other hacker on the screen." A laugh was heard through his earpiece. "Now, now Bastin, there's no need for hostility, I'm not stealing any information from you. It'll all be in that drive even if I drain all the intel from this computer."

Noah's heartbeat stopped. "How do you know my name?"

"I know a lot about you. And I feel that we should meet sometime. It'd be nice to have a little face to face. In fact if you want to find me, come get me. I'm at Dorado, I'll see there friend. And the name's Sombra by the way. A little nugget of info you should know before looking for me."

The computer shut off and Noah was left in what could be described as someone not knowing what just happened. He pulled the drive from the computer and walked over to McCree. "Let's get the hell out of here."

"Best objective given today." They walked out, but before Noah walked out of the room Sombra's voice relayed one last message. "By the way for the hell of it, I sent an alarm to the entire gang about your location. You might want to run."

"What?!" Noah almost screamed, but the sounds of Deadlock's gang stopped it from going to high. "Guys we need to get out of here." Genji appeared next to McCree and held the cowboy up. "I will help McCree's retreat, but you must cover us." Noah picked up a rifle from one of the dead guards along with a grenade. "I got you covered."

Genji nodded and lugged McCree to an exit as fast as he could. Noah fired a few roads in their general direction and threw his unpinned grenade at the approaching group. Several scream were heard before an explosion cut them off. Noah didn't stay to see any survivors as he was running quickly to catch up with McCree and Genji. 'Shit, shit, shit! That stupid bitch blew the whistle on us! I swear to God if I ever meet this 'Sombra' it's a punch in the jaw when I see her!'

"There they are!"

"Shoot them!" The sounds of bullets being deflected could be heard and Noah ran as fast as he could with his battered body. The tunnels were starting to go up and sunlight could be seen. "Homestretch, Noah! Let's do this!"

He burst free from the tunnel mouth and saw an abundance of gang members firing up an old building. He fired a few rounds at them to get their attention and ran to his own cover as they turned some of their attention to them.

"McCree, what's the status of the ship?"

"Just get ready to go when the fireworks begin." McCree responded. Noah ducked his head as few bullets almost hit him. The sound of motorcycles or really hoverbikes could be heard coming in.

"Focus fire on that building. I want the only thing left to be is a bloody red paste and broken wood." Noah aimed his grappling hook at the roof and latched himself to it. He went flying through the air and pulled himself up. "McCree they're going to kill us. We need to at least thin the herd."

"Do not worry. I have the solution to that problem my friend." Noah saw a green glow from the floor beneath and soon the front the building exploded with a single green dragon flying through the sky and into the ground, taking many lives with it as they disappeared.

"Holy shit." He looked at a hole right next to him and saw Genji sheath his sword. "Genji, that was the most badass thing I ever seen!"

"Don't celebrate yet, we got more!" McCree shouted before the sound of gunfire returned. McCree and Noah returned fire and took down a few more down, but it only served to anger the growing beast.

Noah found one of the Deadlock members holding a huge gun and placing small spheres in one tube. He knew that weapon. "Grenade launcher!" Several grenades hit the building and rocked it. "Jesse, the ship!"

"Right above us partner! The cloaked ship above them opened its doors and dropped three tethers done. Genji helped McCree onto his tether and the ship pulled him up. Noah watched Genji grab his and pull him up. And finally the Overwatch agent grabbed his tether and it began to pull him up.

McCree was in the pilot seat trying to navigate with bullets constantly hitting the ship and making control a little harder to handle. Genji held his arm out for Noah to grab, but before he could a grenade hit the ship and the shock made Noah let go. He fell back onto the roof. "Noah!"

Noah hit the ground and groaned as he landed on his grappling hook. A chunk of metal was not the best thing to land on. He sat up and saw himself being surrounded. McCree pressed a few buttons and the ship shot several missiles hitting the area around Noah and saving him. Noah found a hoverbike free from its owner and free for the taking. Jumping down and making a break for it, Noah got on the vehicle and went as fast as he could. McCree found Noah riding far away and followed him.

"Don't let them escape!" The Deadlock gang got on their own bikes and followed Noah. "McCree they're following him!"

"And we'll catch him. Get ready!" Genji nodded and stood out the door. Noah tired keeping his head down as bullets whizzed past his head and chip the bike on some occasions. "Noah!" He looked up to see Genji holding his arm out. "Grab on!"

He reached out, but a rocket flew between their hands and blew a hole in the road. McCree lifted the ship a few feet higher and looked at the camera views. Instead of several bikes chasing Noah, it was several cars as well. And some men had RPGs on them. "Genji, get Noah on here now or else we're gonna lose our ride!"

"I'm trying!" Noah pulled out his grappling hook and aimed at the ship. He pulled the trigger. Click. Despite the thrill of the chase, the murderous people after his life, and Genji trying to understand what happened, Noah looked at the grappling gun in utter confusion. "Are you serious?!"

He pulled the trigger multiple times and the click came back. "And now this is a thing."

"Hurry up! I can't evade all the rockets coming our way!" McCree shouted into his earpiece to Noah. Thinking quickly, Noah pulled out his intel and looked at Genji. "Genji, please don't kill me for this since I think Lena will do that first."

"Wha-" He didn't finish his question as Noah threw the chip at Genji and told McCree to fly. "What, no! Get your sorry ass on this ship before it's too late!"

"I can't!" Noah found a gun attached to the side of the bike and pulled it free. "You need to get that stuff to the doc and Winston! We can't be blind to whatever the hell this is! Now go!"

"But-!"

"GO!" Noah hit the brakes on his bike and left his two friends ahead. He slowed down till he was in between cars and opened fire on both. The two cars drove off course and into the natural terrain. He pulled out his grappling hook and tried to unjam it before anyone else could get a shot at him. Pulling hard against the wire, Noah pulled the hook hard and cut his hand in the process of freeing it.

"There he is!"

"Fire!" Noah looked and saw McCree and Genji trying to fly over them, but the pursuers were keeping them at a distance. He looked over and found a gulf next to him. "You want me so bad, but how far are you willing to go!"

He drifted dangerously close to the gulf and most followed. Some stopped, but the others were bloody hungry. "Oh come on, don't you people care about your lives! You'll freaking die before you get me."

On the Overwatch dropship, McCree was doing his best piloting. He decided to say screw that and put it on auto pilot. Pulling his revolver out, the cowboy moved Genji and took some aiming at their pursuers.

Bullets were fired, but only a few hit their targets. "What're you doing? Just go!"

"Negative, we can't just leave a partner behind!" McCree shouted. Noah wanted to retort, but it all happened so slow. A grenade was flying over him and hit the bike. A burst of flames consumed the front part of the vehicle and threw Noah off course. "Aw shit!" He tried steering, but nothing was working and Noah suddenly found the ground missing beneath him.

Genji and McCree watched in horror as the flaming ball that held their friend reared off the gulf and disappeared in its mouth. The two stood in silence as the ship flew farther and farther away from the site and the two agents couldn't believe what just happened.

Genji looked down in shame as McCree patted him on the shoulder. The cyber ninja looked at his hand to see the drive still there. He handed it to Jesse who moved back to the pilot's seat.

He put the drive in the ship's computer and its files appeared intact. The cowboy sighed and put his face in his hand. "I hope this was worth it. Winston and Lena are not going to like the news."

"Angela too." Genji said. He remembered the promise she made him take. Though it may have been a joke, Genji could tell that joke or not the guilt was going to reside in him. McCree looked at the date on the computer. It's been a day since the mission started and now the veteran's leading a new recruit have lost that recruit. Jesse remembered missions were field agents would lose their lives in the early missions.

Men and women too eager to go back on the field only to lose their lives so early. "I really liked the kid too." Overwatch has just recently come back and now lives were already being lost on their side.

The two sat in silence as the weight of their news grew heavier and heavier. Despite that if they ever stopped to see the wreckage they would see only a destroyed bike and no body.

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